isn't it easy to spend somebody else's money?
Well it seems par for the course for these forums for each airport to have a nominated Walter Mitty character. The overriding qualfication for the post seems to be to have absolutely no experience of working in airport management or airline route development whatsoever. The MAN thread is oversubscribed in this regard, so maybe it is about time the balance in the North was restored
Did the owners of MAN say "we'll build a second runway when we get to 30 million passengers? No they invested their MONEY in the airport up front which meant attracting and doing deals with airlines all the easier.
They said, we've got regular inbound and outbound holding delays and congestion was a real issue that impacted punctuality and fuel burn - and in turn profitability. Obviously the hope was that the project would alleviate the delays AND allow growth of another 17m passengers per year in a 10-15 year horizon. I don't see how that is in anyway comparable to LBA, unless you are saying there is a congestion issue that needs addressing. Are there any holding delays? How much growth could be accommodated before the lack of a parallel taxiway became an issue ?