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Heathrow third runway to get the go ahead
In message , at 21:22:31 on Thu, 15
Jan 2009, tim..... remarked: International transfer business doesn't provide a lot to the UK economy. It "tops up" the long haul flights that wouldn't have been economic to run otherwise. So the transfer passengers are assisting UK residents ability to fly almost anywhere in the world daily. I don't buy this arguement. Most of the places that business people want to fly to, that are currently served from LHR, would have have more than enough frequency if they were supported by the UK demand alone. I accept that there are one or two places (like say, Nairobi) that need connecting pax but most don't. I disagree. It's not hard to find destinations with less than one flight a day (ie 3 or 4 per week), or where it's clear that a service can only be supported from major hub cities (with transfer passengers feeding in). A recent example is Hyderabad (India's Silicon Valley) where until the end of last year the only direct flights from Europe were one a day from AMS and FRA, but BA has now added a daily flight from LHR. Claiming that we need 10 flights a day to FRA so that Germans can connect onto flights to NYC (or Americans in the reverse direction) is a nonsense, yet because of the way that tickets are sold, I bet quite a few do. The issue here isn't flights to popular destinations like NYC (where you can also fly to from Manchester, as well as dozens of direct flights already from LHR). Obviously, the more places are served direct from London, the less people have to hop over to FRA if that's the only place with an onward service. And those direct flights from London need to be supported by transit passengers from elsewhere in Europe (that don't have their own direct flights). -- Roland Perry |
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