Originally Posted by
EastMids
It amounts to the same thing - I can't see the locals being overjoyed.
That's putting it mildly.
I can't really see a proposal to overturn the T5 480,000 ATM planning constraint four years before R3 surviving a challenge in the courts, which could suggest that it's a throwaway negotiating ploy.
The related proposal to "ring-fence" 60% of the additional ATMs (21 daily rotations) for domestic routes, even if it doesn't turn out to be academic (see above), seems unlikely to have airlines rushing to (re)start services to the likes of Norwich, Liverpool, Teesside, IoM, etc.
But when the big prize is getting approval for R3, ancillary promises cost nothing.