"I don't accept that the airport is not fit for purpose. It meets all needs for disabled travellers and so on. The airlines using the airport have decided to use the facilities in a way never intended, as the airport was originally designed. Don't blame the building, blame the airlines. "
Is that because the airlines were not part of the planning??
My main point is the access to the long term parking (despite the shuttle) and the cost, the CAA owned the field, and it doesn't have much in the way of maintenance.
"Just sitting at the airport this morning, its great to see each of the nine based aircraft heading off across the UK and Europe. I think its not a bad show in these troubled times to see the place so busy."
That's what it's for, it is after all mid-July, even if it doesn't feel like it.