Can't help thinking that if there was Rwy3 at LHR or Rwy2 or LGW this could all be so different, as there might be capacity to allow these "lifeline" services to operate, but I also appreciate there would need to be a set of financial circumstances that could ensure viability (eg, Govt could make it a condition of development permission)
But, this is the UK, where politicians continually kick these difficult subjects into the long grass, and leave it as a problem for the next regime.
Meanwhile, the good business folk trying to improve the economic lot of the SW are left with useless connectivity (and I mean trains as well as aeroplanes) due to centuries of underinvestment, dithering and pandering to Nimby's.
Glad I got that off my chest!
Last edited by Wycombe; 2nd Oct 2013 at 16:34.