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Old 12th May 2013, 19:58
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Champions League Traffic

According to the Eastern Daily Press, Stansted and Gatwick have been working with all the interested parties involved with the Champions League Final being held at Wembley and are now the two designated airports for the German fans to use!
So the nearest airport to Wembley which is no more than 30-45mins away on a clear road, has nothing to do with the Champions League traffic. While airports that are easily 1.5hrs drive away handle all the traffic?!

Probably a simple case that one airport is to deal with Dortmund traffic and the other Munich...

Another joke on the airports part that they have no space or facilities to handle aircraft parked up for most of the day, or the shear number of passengers while London's other airports can cope with their normal traffic as well as the football traffic!

Luton is meant to be least congested of the London airports, but that is only true if the facilities were in place, where it is actually probably the most restricted! It might have the runway availability, but nothing else...

Instead the management company and council just cream off of the profits, making do with facilities and infrastructure that were implemented nearly a decade ago and make do with them. While other airports far busier that have evolved over recent years, cope with additional ad-hoc demand.

I get so frustrated with these opportunities just going by, seeing it get mis-managed and the airport isn't half the airport it could be!

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