Birmingham solves Heathrow's capacity problem
I'd always thought that, aside from their impenetrable accents, Brummies at least lived on the same planet as the rest of us.
But apparently not ...
Birmingham Airport Head of Government and Industry Affairs, John Morris: "You could take out 10% of capacity at Heathrow if Birmingham served passengers where they are [because] 3.3 million passengers a year clog roads travelling from the Midlands to Heathrow."
Ignoring for a moment the fact that 3.3 million pax pa doesn't represent anything like 10% of Heathrow's traffic, does the guy have any conception of how hubs operate ?
Has he ever stopped to wonder why airlines aren't already using all that spare capacity at BHX to fly direct to the hundred or so destinations that Heathrow serves but BHX doesn't ?
Hang on though, of course he hasn't, he's from Birmingham ...