its a possibility of BMI returning to BFS, purely with transfers (isn't BMI in one world or star alliance? or something like that)... during the summer its a good idea, but EI has the demand covered during winter so it could be hurtful to both EI and BMI if it was all year round
There's an even better story than that doing the rounds - apparently R/W 17/35 is due for re-surfacing next year and front-runner at the moment is to "do a Glasgow" and have it re-designated as a taxiway and just leave 25/07 as "the runway".
On the plus side the plan involves moving the 17 ILS round to serve 07, emminently sensible methinks.
havn't heard that myself, every so often (about a week every month during winter) theres adverse weather at BFS and 17/35 has been the safest option for landing... have seen many go arounds from 25/07 being used even on the a319s followed by a successful landing on 17/35... in saying they could chop the bottom end off 17 to the cross over point and extend the apron straight across in the direction of 07...
who knows what they are planning, should be interesting though
