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Old 9th Jun 2011, 18:59
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There is no point in extending the runway. The local population wouldn't be able to supply the demand for international routes and Flybe don't want competition for Exeter. Once the runway is long enough to let a Q400 in Flybe will simply do what they did at Newquay and undercut the competition to strangle the route.
Plymouth has a future for GA and rotor traffic, but don't see much hope for anything bigger than a Dash8-300. There's just not the demand.
Now PLH-LGW-PLH twice a day would have been interesting, but Eastern don't seem to have the stomach to annoy Flybe...
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