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Old 2nd Apr 2013, 16:13
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anothertyke
 
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I thought Fairdealfrank's point was that 30% is a low number relative to AMS, ORD and other top league airports, not low in some absolute sense. So there is plenty of headroom for that % to rise if capacity increases. The questions for Davies are --- if we put more capacity in,(a) how will it get used, and (b) how will the punters respond and then (c) how will it cope with growth? As an observer of the scene, not an expert, I think a weakness of the exposition of the case, perhaps inevitable because of the way slot allocation works is that it is treated as kind of obvious that we need more capacity but we never quite commit to what we would do with it. What would be the balance between strengthening ( frequencies on core routes), widening (Chongqing, Chengdu etc), transfers from LGW and elsewhere, and regional feeders? Davies needs to come up with a proposition--- this is what you could have ---which is not necessarily going to be what any individual airline would ideally want.
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