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I must admit, it is not simply a case of walk through the shop and get on with it. The hoards of people being fooled into thinking they are getting bargains, spraying their perfumes everywhere and leaving their oversized bags in the way while they go off to by a 4 meter long Toblerone all certainly add time to my journey.
I do like LHR T2 and T5 for those reasons. Plenty of other airports manage it. HKG, ICN, NRT, DOH, DUB, CDG, ORD...just some of the major airports I've used recently and not one has had this set up. Seems to be a greedy UK thing. I haven't used a Belfast airport for a few years, but what a shame if BFS has gone down this forced shopping mall mess. I hated when EDI became one of the sheep and followed this awful trend. EDI is particularly bad as you need to actually double back on yourself to get through the shop and at peak times the line for the tills can block the exit!
I do like LHR T2 and T5 for those reasons. Plenty of other airports manage it. HKG, ICN, NRT, DOH, DUB, CDG, ORD...just some of the major airports I've used recently and not one has had this set up. Seems to be a greedy UK thing. I haven't used a Belfast airport for a few years, but what a shame if BFS has gone down this forced shopping mall mess. I hated when EDI became one of the sheep and followed this awful trend. EDI is particularly bad as you need to actually double back on yourself to get through the shop and at peak times the line for the tills can block the exit!
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I was on a flight to LDY the other day and I had heard a woman from Tyrone talking about going to Dublin and Knock airport to fly to London? Never mentioned going to Belfast.
So, that's an example of how people avoid the airport. Stupidly, because I can't see why you'd drive from Tyrone to Dublin for a short flight to London.
We would probably have at least a million extra passengers per annum if people who went to Dublin for short haul flights actually used their local airport.
So, that's an example of how people avoid the airport. Stupidly, because I can't see why you'd drive from Tyrone to Dublin for a short flight to London.
We would probably have at least a million extra passengers per annum if people who went to Dublin for short haul flights actually used their local airport.
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A short look around BHD or BFS car park, in particular BFS in summer will tell you just how many people are driving from Ireland to use what are often now cheaper flights. It's horses for courses, there's people I talk to think DUB is the only airport to get to all sorts of places, there's people who don't believe me when I say Norwegian fly transatlantic from BFS, and recently in a meeting with a company manager from Dublin I was informed many Dubliners use BFS if it's cheap enough - and that I think is the key. How many weird and wonderful off the beaten track airports have FR turned into household names, some with literally military style facilities.
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When easyJet announced the new route did they not say the Bordeaux and Paris where getting a extra weekly flight? I have been looking on their website and there has beem nothing extra loaded...
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I had been wondering something similar. Three new routes, twice a week, for an extra aircraft. What is it doing the rest of the time as I have not seen any real increases on other routes. I must be missing something.
