bad bear, for the whole of 2012 Doncaster is ahead of Bournemouth (693,129 vs 689,755). It's only in January 2013, that Bournemouth overtook DSA with a few hundred extra passengers, but that could easily have changed in February.
I think using arguments about Southend and Manston with regards to Class D will fall on deaf ears - Southend will likely have Class D very soon (they have applied for it already), even though they had 70,000 fewer passengers in 2012 than DSA. Manston only had 7,000 passengers in the whole of the last 12 months.
BarTT, I agree partly with your comments. I heard about the infringement a couple of weeks ago, and sometimes general aviation does not help itself with instances like this. But I've heard regular stories about zone transits being declined due to IFR training (as bad bear says), which should not happen. Are some ATCOs too cautious?
Last edited by wb9999; 8th Mar 2013 at 10:46.