LGW hub
Quote: "Interview with Stuart Wingate in Saturday's FT in which he argues that, if the Airports Commission comes down in favour of a second runway at Gatwick (and assuming that the government agrees), there is a "fighting chance" that one of the alliances will move its operations from Heathrow to Gatwick."
Forget it! It's all been done before.
Back in the day government policy dictated that a private longhaul UK carrier had to be based at LGW while state-owned BOAC and BEA (later BA) remained at based LHR. The government even took routes off BEA and BOAC and handed them over to LGW based carriers (no open skies or deregulation in those days!). The result: the private carriers went bust.
It didn't work then (when everything was heavily regulated) with BUA, BCAL, etc., and won't work now with one of the alliances, even with another rwy at LGW.
Last edited by Fairdealfrank; 29th Sep 2013 at 22:15.