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Old 16th Jul 2009, 18:54
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Purely because, other than the Jersey service - which is good news but hardly rocket science and, I suspect being operated at a significant cost to the airport company, it's all pie in the sky.
Common business sense dictates that Oxford will never be able to sevice such markets.
Amsterdam is a non starter because there isn't an airline with an interline agreement with KLM which operates an aeroplane capable of operating from Oxford.

Additionally, Oxford does not have the terminal or handling facilites to operate more than one aircraft such as a DCH8 at any one time - assuming that a 1319m runway will alow a fully loaded DHC8to operate anywhere (I think not).

Oxford should stick to what it's good at - GA and executive aviation, anything else will never make them money and will, without a doubt lead to significant financial pain.
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