A good summary there Skipness…….Its more than ironic that LTN now needs what STN has plenty off – space (inside and outside!)
On the subject of cross-subsidies, of course some of us remember when the CAA upheld LTN’s compliant that STN had poached traffic using subsidies (but were basically powerless to do anything about it!) Its also worth recalling that until around 1998, STN had never made a penny for 25 years!
It does seem that what is happening now at STN is almost going round full-circle to when the new terminal complex opened in the early 1990’s At that time it was branded a white elephant with only a handful of Air UK schedules and some Scandinavian charters at weekends serving the airport!