Quote: "nigel, LGW emphasises that today (2012 numbers) only a bit over 17 million of the passengers flying to London airports are transfer passengers; the rest (118 million) are O&D passengers. With such a vast majority terminating only the best ground transport counts to get to the final destination."
The presence of transfer pax make normally unviable routes profitable, adding to the number of destinations available from a particular airport, and increasing choice and developing new business.
The number of transfer pax is immaterial, it only has to be sufficient to provide these additional routes.
Quote: "Watching this with interest as my office is within the new 'Safeguarded boundary'..."
Interesting that there's a safeguarded boundary at LGW! Judging by the distance of some of the rwy options from the existing rwy, it must be one hell of a large area!
Was it established before 1979?
Shame there was never one established at LHR back in the day (1950s).
Last edited by Fairdealfrank; 25th Jul 2013 at 17:18.