Sorry to go off topic but anyone know if the FR offerings from BHX have been finalised for next summer? If so its a paltry selection of routes compared to the other bases opened around the same time (BRS and EDI).....a combination of recession and strained relations with the airport management??
As for the runway I agree with Call, BHX has often chased its tail and reacted after the event to play catch up with others (I know its not about infrastructure but the lo-co boom in the early noughties comes to mind....) but I am still not sure about whether the extension will encourage the supposed range of flights that its cost would need to justify it. Having said that I guess airport development looks at the very long term it would be terrible if BHX was caught with its pants down again in the future and those 787s (if they ever come) went from EMA instead off their shiny new runway extension (if indeed that happens
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