wb9999
I think you will find that Bournemouth has more passengers than Doncaster over the last 12 months (688,552 v/s 688240),also a ghost town, and Southend will overtake Doncaster in the feb figures.
BarTT
It seems that CAS and attracting passengers are not linked. Manston and Southend have both grown without CAS while Bournemouth, Doncaster, Liverpool and Teeside (164,000) have all decreased markedly.
If controllers respected the rules of class"D" i.e. IFR separated from IFR and information on VFR, avoiding heading on request, there would be fewer requests to remove the almost empty airspace. A "known trafic environment" is good but the current "no trafic environment" is bad. VFR trafic has been refused entry to Doncaster due to a single light twin doing IFR training and that is simply wrong. The twin should have had separation from any IFR and trafic information on any VFR.
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