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Old 15th Oct 2012, 22:09
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Skipness One Echo
 
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If Stansted was given six runways
Earth to Silverstrata, Mission Control to orbiting spaceman.
In all seriousness, and excusing the fact you are American and live in LA, what in the name of God makes you think this is even remotely possible?
Do you know the area at all?
Can you perhaps share just where we put six runways across the historic villages of rural Essex?
Are you bulldozing Stansted Mountfitchet?
Wrecking ball to Bishops Stortford?
Chucking them out their houses in Dunmow?
Perhaps we could move the M11 as well?
You either move your operations to the STN International Hub, or you go to AMS or CDG instead. No questions asked.
You know, I mean you MUST know, how can you as a CPL not know, that in that scenario, half the passengers WOULD fly from AMS or CDG rather than Stansted. It's you Silver who just doesn't listen to anyone who challenges your Fantasy Vanity Island Folly.

STN would work as an alternative to LHR.
Fundamentally, strategically and completely wrong. It is far detached from the high demographics of the M4 corridor and is on the wrong side of London. It would not, cannot and hasn't worked as intended because people don't do the basics of understanding market behavior.

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