Airport Consolidation Needed!
Under the scheme do we really need Newcastle either. Why not just have Edinburgh and Manchester.
DTV has more open land and potential than newcastle..logically developing DTV would be better and more cost effective than developing newcastle dont you think?
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Careful! - There's no rant about DTVA closure. The assumption from the Airports shown (IF there was to be consolidation!! and it's a big IF!) is that the airports close to the centre of the largest regional centres would survive... Surely you're not suggesting DTVA is better located in a field east of Darlington & miles from Middlesbrough with No Infrastructure and .... No Customers.. is in a privileged position to expand to 5-6+ million passengers in the next few years... from less than half a million. Even the owners (Peel) don't want the airport... They've undergone a massive U-Turn in their comments; only following political pressure.
This is not about the NCL vs MME but all regional airports and infrastructure outside London & South East.
PAXBOY & SWBKCB make some good points
Adding to VentureGo's rant plan to close DTVA I don't see a need for Newcastle either. Newcastles site would make a good high value houseing estate.
Careful! - There's no rant about DTVA closure. The assumption from the Airports shown (IF there was to be consolidation!! and it's a big IF!) is that the airports close to the centre of the largest regional centres would survive... Surely you're not suggesting DTVA is better located in a field east of Darlington & miles from Middlesbrough with No Infrastructure and .... No Customers.. is in a privileged position to expand to 5-6+ million passengers in the next few years... from less than half a million. Even the owners (Peel) don't want the airport... They've undergone a massive U-Turn in their comments; only following political pressure.
This is not about the NCL vs MME but all regional airports and infrastructure outside London & South East.
PAXBOY & SWBKCB make some good points
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I was brought up on Doganis and Thompson which said minimum efficient scale was 3m units ( annual passengers plus tonnes of freight). That's old now but maybe it still gives an indication. In which case, I'm with FairdealFrank, supposing a few more years of low growth, will there come a moment when some of them are just not good enough on current cost accounting or the replacement investment is unaffordable? Or the land is more valuable for something else. But even if one or two minnows do drop out or cut back, this issue is being raised 50 years too late. We are where we are, a spot of marginal adjustment maybe, wholesale consolidation no chance.
