London Banter - View Single Post - Crossrail access to Heathrow still not settled

Roland Perry · May 23rd 17, 01:35 PM posted to uk.railway,uk.transport.london

In message , at 13:17:09 on Tue, 23 May
2017, d remarked:
Besides, as Heathrow likes to keep reminding us , its a hub, which
means its generally not the population of the UK that gets the benefits.

It's around one third hub, two thirds destination.

But passengers in transit through the hub still require airlines to
prepare, clean, fuel and crew aircraft, transfer baggage, and make and
deliver on-board meals.

Transit passengers are therefore making much the same demands (and
providing much the same revenue) for the local economy as non-transit
passengers.

Note that I'm avoiding getting into a second-order ****ing competition
over whether or not transit passengers make more or less use of airport
catering and duty free shops compared to non-transit passengers.

Then there's the benefit to local passengers of the increased traffic
from transit passengers making many of the flights economically feasible
in the first place. Without the transit passengers the airlines might
decide not to run them (or as many) at all.
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Roland Perry