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Well, it aleo depends on their subsidy provider for some routes, surely?
On a bus for an hour? How does Euston to Padd direct on a shuttle bus take an hour???!
You do know that South Wales is a 'Low Cost Location'? Why do you think loads of jobs/roles got sent to Newport a few years back (creating monstrous numbers of journeys up and down the M4 and Wales-Paddington Railway in the process)
I’m guessing that the number of people arriving at Euston with through tickets to Heathrow is not a lot. Probably not enough to justify more than an infrequent bus trip, maybe every 30 minutes? Plenty of standing around to be accounted for.
Hopefully one day we’ll get a government (similar to the one the USA has just got) that is prepared to rip up a lot of the ludicrous global agreements that are holding us back.
Along with all the Ali and Temu carp we’re buying that’s coming arriving into East Midlands and Cardiff pretty much daily in 747-400 freighters and A340-600 preighters. I‘m actually surprised the green loonies haven’t latched onto that yet. Not much capacity for it in the London area at the moment - maybe a good thing for the airlines involved and the companies manufacturing it all as it keeps it a little under the radar.
Indeed, Wales much cheaper than London and the existing facilities are simply capitalising on a resource that’s already there. Apart from Boeing at Gatwick (Jet2 at Manchester is more of a like-for-like replacement) there’s been no major new / additional MROs setting up in the UK for decades, and not much expansion either. More hangars could be built, but they’ve not been - not at the rate they have been elsewhere anyway. While yes some major MRO does take place here, a good deal of it is outsourced into cheaper labour markets. Again, there are reasons why there are major providers that have been set up in Eastern Europe and the Far East.
It does. And the cost of running a hydrogen plane, especially the hydrogen itself and the fuelling facilities at every airport, means someone is going to have to take a fairly big decision.
And East Midlands is a close second. East Midlands receives the vast majority of the dedicated cargo traffic to the UK.
You can’t simply say that cargo can be moved (to East Midlands).
Ok so did you read what I wrote?
From memory, also imports of fresh 'exotic' fruit and veg, headed for the Western International Market, M4 J3.
I know. My understanding that Emirates’ Newcastle route really makes its money from what’s in the 777’s belly. I doubt it is alone. As others have said, it’s why we have wide body jets on some weird routes out of Heathrow.
Again, rather than being obnoxious you should perhaps accept what is being said to you and not just ignoring the key points. There’s a reason people like you get ignored then you complain when they don’t listen to you. You simply have no argument.
The Heathrow expansion documents and plans are on this link.
This consultation dated in 2019 claims construction would take roughly five years but provides no information about costs and who will pay for it. Even if it could be funded and built this third runway would not be operational until well into the 2030s at the earliest.The Heathrow expansion documents and plans are on this link.
This all dates from pre covid in 2019. There hasn't been any updates since, but with air travel now back after its pandemic lows, it will be change to timescale, rather than different masterplan
Stansted is already working on its own expansion project which make it capable of handling more passengers than Gatwick currently does
Stansted Airport: When will £1.1bn expansion happen and why?
London Stansted Airport will become the UK's second busiest airport due to the bumper investment.
The workable alternative is to not do it, the cost is too high, the roads already overloaded.
Sheesh, do you really not get it? Or are you just bent out of shape because it can cost more to fly from the UK than from other parts of Europe?
As I said previously Stansted is not a hub, it is a point-to-point airport. It won’t become a hub while ever it is clogged up by Ryanair and easyJet. The chances of getting a network carrier into Stansted is remote unless one of those two change its business model. This doesn’t make Stansted bad per se, but outside the low-cost sector it will be challenging attracting new routes because thinner markets need connectivity to support them. And that’s why a Heathrow hub is still important and needs to be able to accommodate growing UK demand.
If demand is growing so much it should be able to sustain a second hub rather than expand Heathrow at enormous cost to the area.
Stansted recovered faster from COVID than most other airports and have to say that even with LGW on my doorstep i find STAN a much more organised airport as a passenger and generally far cheaper to most destinations. Leave them to what they do best point to point.
Ah climate, the biggest load of bolloxology since we were all told that we’d kill each other if we stood within two meters of anyone else. Both primarily designed to keep us all in our places. What’s the alternative to allowing air transport to grow? Constrain demand through state-mandated prices hikes? Refuse to develop additional infrastructure? Those approaches are so blinkered. The human race doesn’t make progress and improve through being inhibited, restricted and taxed. It does so by being allowed to unfetteredly grow and innovate. Until we accept this and let go of the net zero lunacy, the UK will have one massive hand tied behind its back. Trump seems to know what‘s needed - sadly the UK government seems not to want to know.
