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With respect rutankrd you haven't been on the smelling salts have you, never heard such a lot of cobblers for a long time, Heathrow expansion having an effect on Bristol, come on.
Just bringing up the elephant in the room and thats how the vast majority of those slots created will be deployed.
Combined with careful reading and specific airline statements particularly those radiating from Easyjet.
In other domains where mega hubs have been created particular in the US medium sized airports relatively near by have consistently declined.
And think about it in the case of Bristol and move forward 10-15 years the rail line is fully electrified with IEP trains every 15 minutes towards London in 90 minutes.
T6 is open and the western curve built with trains stopping at T5/T6 station.
Easyjet have their 40 plane base up and running out of Heathrow.
Bristolians WILL be using this at the expense of the foggy runway on a hill that has dire road and no rail connections like it or not.
Luton's USP is also broken and similarly those in Central, North and Western London currently using Easyjets Gatwick operations have a more immediate local choice.
Just consider that.
Congecture maybe however its all in the consultation documents and based on industry growth expectations.
This scenario is rather more realistic than Liverpool or Carlisle having multiple daily shuttle flights me thinks.