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Airport expansion: Heathrow runway 3 and Gatwick runway 2 constituteshortlist
On 2013\12\18 17:22, tim...... wrote:
"Recliner" wrote in message ... "tim......" wrote: wrote in message ... On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 19:39:01 +0000 Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 20:21:52 on Tue, 17 Dec 2013, tim...... remarked: Intra UK transit pax are not the problem. It's the perceived need to steal pax from other European carries at major European "hubs", that is I was researching flights to SA the other day and it is 20% cheaper to fly LHR-FRA-CPT with LH than it is to fly FRA-CPT OTOH it is 20% cheaper to fly FRA-LHR-CPT with BA than it is to fly LHR-CPT. So the reason that LHR needs to be a hub is because BA (apparently) can't fill a plane from LHR to CPT without "bribing" pax from Germany to fly via London. You really don't understand yield management, do you? It's about selling the highest priced fares to people who insist in direct flights, then filling the remaining seats with people on feeders from nearby. The result maximises revenue, even if some people get cheaper flights as a result of agreeing to be those indirect passengers. Regardless , the whole motive behind blighting somewhere in the southeast with another runway seems to be so that airlines and BAA can make more profit. It has zilch to do with the UK economy other than the small amount of extra corporation tax it would deliver which would be more than ofset by the billions it would cost to build the thing in the first place even with partial private finance. Its a cynical campaign by private corporations for the government to spend huge amounts of public money on some infrastructure that will benefit almost no one economically except themselves and their shareholders. And their customers, there some double counting here you have mentioned them again (below) employees So a new runway at LHR will cause them to give they employees a rise will it? and suppliers. OK I accept this And those customers will include businesses that gain from direct flights to secondary cities in places like China and South America. There is no proof that: a) this will happen b) that it wont happen if the extra runway is somewhere else I don't buy this need to fly to dozens of regional airports in China. Most of the companies that contract with UK companies are going to be located in the "enterprise" areas that are probably already well served by flights. The (likely) reason that other EU airports have links to more Chinese airports is because of the demand from the Chinese to come here as tourists, but we discourage that with our strict visa rules so they chose to go to other parts of Europe instead. (I'm not saying that's right, but if it doesn't change I don't believe that more destinations in China would be served from LHR, if it did have more capacity). What you really need is to have a dozen aeroplanes take off from a dozen Chinese airports simultaneously, then link up mid-air with walkway tubes linking them all in a straight line so that passengers can walk between the planes, and then separate and go to a dozen different regional airports in Britain. The existence of turbulence would mean the tubes would have to be long and flexible, unlike the short rigid tubes that link shuttles to space stations. |
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