Pixie,
And in the days when PLH had direct services to/from LGW the route was operated by a DHC6 and with average load factors of some 50-60%, 10-12 punters per 20 seater aircraft.
The successful route was NQY to/from LHR operated by a HPR7 with average load factors of some 70%, 35 punters per 50 seater aircraft, punters don't actually want to go to/from an airport in the West Sussex countryside, they want to travel to/from LHR where they can connect worldwide and preferably on a codeshare such as the codeshare Brymon had with BA.
Then they combined the successful NQY route with PLH, average loads to/from PLH less than 25 punters per flight, then BA 'stole' the LHR slots forcing ASW to an airport in the West Sussex countryside and the rest is history, or so one thought, but now some bright spark has come up with an idea to spend millions lengthening PLH's runway to operate 100 seater jets to accommodate previous load factors of less than 25 punters per flight.
Or have I missed something?
