"If we do not add more capacity in the South East we will lose traffic to AMS, CDG etc".
Davies Commission
All these airlines opening up services to MAN are clearly deluding themselves ........
re Gil Thompson I appreciate the younger viewers probably deride the Old Gits who frequent this column but via history, comparisons have to be made, back in the 80s 90s, we had somebody shouting our corner, manipulating the media ,and kicking at the door of London Centricism and the Department of Transport, today that is matched by .....................................silence.
Manchester Airport is a vehicle to make money, it executes that very well, but what has been lost is a tool of Mancunian pride !
MAG was self congratulatory re STN but hang on, should they not save a Guinness or two for the real work horse !
Occasionally this pride rears its head with HS2, as MPs join the gravy train to pronounce what a magnificent project this is, they all clamber over their shoulders to see what everybody else is saying/doing !
BUT Manchester Airport is the here and NOW, not some fantasy project that will cost £Trillions !
There "appears" to be a momentum led by the airlines to look NORTH, with Davies due to report next year can somebody please grasp the nettle or Davies by the throat and suggest that if he looked at the evidence there are "also" options outside the M25 !
"up here chaps ...wave everybody, yes that's us North of Watford"
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