Marginal Airports(UK)
Looking carefully at the posts on this thread, we have come back to the old chessnut of municiple developement of airfields going back 50 Years or so.
The phrase "Chickens home to roost" comes to mind. Pairs of airports 30 miles apart. BHX and COV 12 miles !
A strategic ecomomic view of developement needs to be taken and It never has been.
The price of oil will inevetably shape the pattern of demand for air travel in the next 30 years. OK Hydrogen may be an alternative but where are the working systems ?
With the exeptions of LHR,LGW,MAN and the special cases of EMA (Freight) togather with NCL (Geography) and the some of Scottish Airports (More Geography), most UK airports could be considered marginal.
8 Million pax in 2011 using a facility now, could equal 0 in ten/fifteen years time. A valid but ominous thread for pprune.
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