Quote: "It's a dump of an airport, 4 terminals scattered at the 4 corners and badly linked up "
Yet it's where airlines and pax want to be. Airlines pay millions for slot pairs. As the saying goes: 70,000,000 pax cannot be wrong.
Surely it's operating at capacity because it is sucessful. We're too good at knocking sucess instead of building on it.
Quote: "Lease the Thames Estuary to the Govt of Hong Kong and we'd hav a new airport in 5 years"
Please be realistic, who pays for this?
Incidentally, if you're refering to Chek Lap Kok, unlike any of the proposed estuary airport sites, it's not in the middle of nowhere, it's about as far from Hong Kong as Heathrow is from London, and was mostly built before the handover, under the colonial government.
You also fail to explain why the airlines would be motivated to leave what you call "a dump of an airport". You say "Thames estuary airport", but the words "Mirabel (YMQ) part 2" spring to mind.
Last edited by Fairdealfrank; 6th Aug 2012 at 14:51.