Designing a long term infrastructure project on the back of what Ryanair tells you is a high risk strategy indeed.
'Fickle and unpredictable' is a phrase that springs to mind where RYR is concerned. Not a great basis for investment to be fair.
Relations may be good now (which is speculation anyway) but what will it be like in 4 years time? Trouble is with RYR - you never know.
Shed: I don't think anyone has suggested that having a pier in the location of the current Pier B is a bad idea; it's the prospect of a 1961 vintage structure which has already been pfaffed around with a number of times (of course in a cheap-ass way being Manchester) being cheap-assed again.
Additionally it is the bursting of the bubble of hope that existed for the past few weeks. The talk of 'world-class facility' is now being diluted into 'make-do and mend'.
In any case it would surely be cheaper to demolish and re-build a low-cost pier in the same spot than to do another compromised lash up of the kind that has bedeviled T1 for the past 30 years or more.
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