Hear hear Pizarro and Tonyq
But this capacity issue needs addressing. Mrs HAC reported only 5 spare seats on her 1355 flight yesterday to LGW.
So on the back of the proverbial fag packet I reckon there's around 17500 seats to LGW each month (26 rotations of 78 seats per week times 4.3 weeks per month). The combined LGW and LCY reported pax numbers for 2011 (2010 in brackets) were:
June 16,400 (17,470)
July 15,612 (16,848)
Aug 15,129 (15,656)
If the Airport Director is right about her anticipated 5% improvement this year that would give 100% loads for June and 94% for July assuming demand for all flights is even, which of course it isn't. There will no doubt be some leakage to LTN, and to "London" Oxford, but getting a seat on the busy flights at the last minute will be nigh on impossible.
Of course my math may be wrong......