PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - NEWQUAY
Thread: NEWQUAY
View Single Post
Old 15th Jul 2011, 12:52
  #552 (permalink)  
Cazza_fly
 
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: East Midlands
Posts: 542
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
NQY's runway isn't long enough for heavy and long haul traffic and the great circle N. Atlantic track routes over Iceland thus such aircraft would be routing past such airports as GLA, PIK, BFS, SNN, DUB etc. just to get to/from NQY!
NQY's runway is more than long enough to offer longhaul / transatlantic flights, which it has been able to do in the past (Jet2 757 to New York, Thomson 767 to the Caribbean etc). The terminal building however would be the problem. It struggles with two 737 load worths of passengers so i can't imagine what it would be like inside with a 767 load plus other flights. The idea though of alfaman100 is a little bit over the top !
Cazza_fly is offline