troubled airports
These small local airports and their surrounding areas need two things to reinvigorate them:
(1) the ending of (or major reduction in) APD;
(2) a domestic route to/from LHR, say 3-4 flights/day each way.
Regretably, neither is going to happen.
MME is a classic but not the only example, the airport went into terminal decline once BD pulled the MME-LHR route back in 2009. KL's link to AMS clearly isn't enough.
The UK must be the only country that has:
(1) very few UK airports (7) linked to LHR, its national hub airport;
(2) the only country with so many airports (over 20 each) linked to other countries' hubs, AMS and DUB;
(3) the only country to have just TWO of it's many carriers to have a presence at LHR, its national hub airport.
How on earth did we get into such a mess?!
Last edited by Fairdealfrank; 20th Dec 2013 at 18:48.