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June 11th 18, 01:36 PM
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Plan to pedestrianise London's Oxford Street scrapped
On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 13:52:34 +0100
Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 11:16:23 on Mon, 11 Jun 2018, remarked: On Mon, 11 Jun 2018 12:05:21 +0100 Roland Perry wrote: In message , at 10:53:46 on Mon, 11 Jun 2018, remarked: a hub airport brings very little to the UK other than pollution and profit for Heathrow Plc. It brings a great deal of employment (on the airport and off it). Really? Where? A few extra staff at the terminals If a third [approximately] of all flights are generated by transfer passengers then all the maintenance and support (eg airline meals and baggage handling, and cleaning and fuelling and dispatch) for those flights creates work in the local economy. A trivial amount. and a few extra journeys for cabbies. Thats about it. Transfer flights don't create work for cabbies. Please try to get a grip. I'm assuming it won't all be transfer passengers. I said a few extra. I suspect it would take a few millenia to recoup the billions that will be spent on it the extra tax income from those jobs. The capital cost is recouped from the air fares. Ah, I see you're a comedian too. For a start the airlines arn't funding it and secondly if heathrow raise their fees too high some of them may simply clear off elsewhere. How so? You think Heathrow are going to drop their landing fees? More likely they'll raise them significantly. It's nothing to do with landing fees, simply without the transfer passengers numerous of the final destinations would no longer be economic for the airlines to service. Give some examples then of routes that will be used by transfer passengers but not in any significant amount by locals. |
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