McTeir396 said;
It does appear that GIP are likely to spend £260m less on infrastructure than BAA had assigned to EDI over the next decade and thats not cricket when the idea of the break up of BAA was to reduce prices to passengers and to provide better facilities. Well that cant happen if your not spending on infrastructure.
Is the higher BAA figure based on the 2006 master-plan that assumed up to 26 million pax by 2030 and therefore included land purchase for a second runway and the purchase of much of the RHAS site?
If so, BAA themselves revised that figure down significantly when the master-plan was re-issued in 2011 following a significant reduction in forecast passenger traffic to 20.5 million. The second runway and the acquisition of much of the RHAS site was postponed indefinitely in the 2011 master-plan and the related land purchase was presumably removed from the budget at that time.
Did the reduction in forecast capital spend occur under BAA's watch via the 2011 master-plan or has there been a further reduction since then?