Alderney is currently hanging on to around 3 daily flights to Southampton and a few more to Guernsey, which give travellers links to a reasonable selection of UK and European destinations, and if they want to go furhter getting from Southampton Airport to Heathrow or Gatwick is a fairly easy process, so I don't really see how there is any demand for an LHR link to this tiny island. Not forgetting that a 16 seat Trislander (Largest aircraft viably operated from ACI) would be a huge waste of LHR slots, regardless of whether it gets 2 more runways or not.
Could see Liverpool, Isle of Man, Inverness, Jersey, Newquay working although only with the mentioned extra runways combined with significantly reduced or ideally scrapped APD.
Last edited by adfly; 2nd Jan 2013 at 15:27.