Centre Cities,
Yes the runway extension opening has turned into a shambles.Two deadlines missed and the latest from the airport..no date yet fixed for its opening.
It started off acceptable, we had 3 months of floods so that can account for a big part of the delay.Expected opening went from mid April to late April then 1st May all missed.
However we have then had over 2 months of fairly dry weather.Yet during the day when you would have expected them to ramp work up,the new taxiway in the day was abandoned with hardly any work going on.
Its only in the last 2 weeks that the contractors have been like headless chickens with extra staff working on the still unfinished taxiway in the day.
They should have put more resources into it in the day..the fact they haven't may point towards very weak penalty clause implications imposed by BHX ?
There has been a reshuffle of the BHX management Im told, the day after the airport shrugged its shoulders when it would now be open..not sure if its connected.
If there is any good news perhaps its the fact that BHX has not been able to secure an airline that needs the extension from May.
Nigel