From: Roland Perry on
In message <jnYAn.78159$W27.2630(a)newsfe14.ams2>, at 15:31:45 on Sun, 25
Apr 2010, Buddenbrooks <knightstemplar(a)budweiser.com> remarked:
>> At least you can fairly easily get (by public transport) from London to
>> all the regions, which you can't say for Bristol.
>
>I was suggesting a Hub airport not a destination airport.

Oh, I see. Didn't Schiphol steal your clothes?
--
Roland Perry
From: Buddenbrooks on

"Roland Perry" <roland(a)perry.co.uk> wrote in message
news:5bH$9Bn2YG1LFAoP(a)perry.co.uk...
> In message <jnYAn.78159$W27.2630(a)newsfe14.ams2>, at 15:31:45 on Sun, 25
> Apr 2010, Buddenbrooks <knightstemplar(a)budweiser.com> remarked:
>>> At least you can fairly easily get (by public transport) from London to
>>> all the regions, which you can't say for Bristol.
>>
>>I was suggesting a Hub airport not a destination airport.
>
> Oh, I see. Didn't Schiphol steal your clothes?


No, Schiphol has the same problem of focusing hub traffic over areas of
high population and dense local flight paths.



From: jcurry99 on
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:07:19 +0100, Roland Perry <roland(a)perry.co.uk>
wrote:

>>Which is the problem for some with LHR currently.? More services
>>should be distributed to the UK regionals.?

>At least you can fairly easily get (by public transport) from London to
>all the regions, which you can't say for Bristol.

And vice-versa? :-)
From: jcurry99 on
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:31:45 +0100, "Buddenbrooks"
<knightstemplar(a)budweiser.com> wrote:


> > At least you can fairly easily get (by public transport) from London to
>> all the regions, which you can't say for Bristol.

> I was suggesting a Hub airport not a destination airport.

Spread the hubs?
From: jcurry99 on
On Sun, 25 Apr 2010 15:09:00 +0100, Roland Perry <roland(a)perry.co.uk>
wrote:


>>Planes from the Atlantic do not cross overland.

>So this is Boris's estuary airport, relocated to Bristol? Do they have
>enough land for it?

Boris's 'Son of Maplin Sands' would probably generate more complaints
than a LHR 3rd runway?