hillwalker2004 wrote
Q257 Karen Lumley: There is no way you see yourself going back to Birmingham.
Willie Walsh: No, I don’t. Certainly I don’t see any business case or business justification for us to operate long-haul flights from Birmingham. It may attract a couple of other foreign airlines to operate into Birmingham, but not on a scale that will make any difference and certainly not on a scale that would justify the investment in HS2. If the business case for HS2 is to connect to Birmingham airport, I would really worry. If there is a business case to connect to Birmingham airport, there must be a business case that is 20, 30, 50 or 100 times more robust to connect to Heathrow. So I just don’t see it.
Did anyone really expect BA to return to the UK regions? Future prosperity and growth of Birmingham Airport will have nothing to do with BA.
Willie Walsh desperately needs Heathrow to be expanded as his airline is almost wholly dependent upon it, he doesn't want anything else.
Daza