Originally Posted by
Vokes55
But London doesn't need 'hub capacity', passengers that spend two hours here before getting on another flight, contributing nothing to the economy. London needs capacity to bring people into the city, which is exactly what the majority of those using easyJet and Norwegian are.
Yawn.
You might want to do some simple research on how a hub works.
Clue: If an airport has lots of flights on lots of routes (which is what you tell us, rightly, that London needs), then inevitably you are going to get lots of passengers who use the airport to connect from one flight to another because you can't fly direct between the points in question. Complaining that, on average, a third of the passengers arriving at a hub like LHR continue their journey by air ignores the fact that it's those pax that make many services viable that otherwise wouldn't be.
How are you proposing to change that ?