BA
Look the only way we can legally make airlines to use the Thames Hub airport (THA) is to close all other airports in the area, if we just close LHR, then BA and others would spend huge amounts of money buying up slots at LGW (because it is more conveniant to use that airport than the THA).
Bollo.
You are not a pilot are you - certainly not one who has been into LGW regularly. Hek, man, you cannot get a sheet of paper between the inbounds and outbounds at LGW sometimes. The REAL B.A. setting up shop in LGW?? Not in a million years sonny, LGW would be their worst nightmare.
There is no airpoert in the world that could take all the trafic of the London basin, and nor would any sensibe airport want to. The international hubbers want one thing, and the loco point-to-pointers want something completely different. So let's keep them separate.
And mark my words, if Silver-Boris was being constructed, and LHR had been earmarked as a technology park, B.A. and all the other majors would be gleefully making plans to relocate to the Thames. In reality, LHR is the old grandma at the teenagers party - nice and cuddly and everyone is still fond of her, but everyone also knows that she is completly out of touch with the modern world, way past her sell-by date, and frankly a bit of a pain in the arse.
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