tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21660941.post1607148317723089386..comments2024-02-17T18:51:24.318+00:00Comments on Havering On: The Great Edinburgh Airport Sell-off – Panacea or Problem?Richard Havershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15309594787689405779noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21660941.post-44588745348402561442009-01-01T03:06:00.000+00:002009-01-01T03:06:00.000+00:00Richard this was such an in teresting post and I d...Richard this was such an in teresting post and I do hope the people can make the wrong wright!! It has been so lovely visiting you - not knowing from were I came to be here but very pleased I do arrive (smiles)<BR/><BR/>Happy New year for 2009 fromhere in Australia<BR/>Lee-annPear tree cottage!https://www.blogger.com/profile/10056634124523395270noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21660941.post-13242064002725729902008-12-31T13:31:00.000+00:002008-12-31T13:31:00.000+00:00... and Happy New Year.... and Happy New Year.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21660941.post-35273614472581178472008-12-25T22:40:00.000+00:002008-12-25T22:40:00.000+00:00Hope you are having a good Xmas.Hope you are having a good Xmas.Welshcakes Limoncellohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17209759237794290941noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21660941.post-17268839882958188872008-12-24T12:07:00.000+00:002008-12-24T12:07:00.000+00:00Richard, Merry Christmas from me too. Enjoy.Richard, Merry Christmas from me too. Enjoy.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21660941.post-53302767725979289012008-12-22T15:28:00.000+00:002008-12-22T15:28:00.000+00:00Happy Christmas RichardHappy Christmas Richardjams o donnellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17315325008175184363noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21660941.post-89814291772215322292008-12-21T15:10:00.000+00:002008-12-21T15:10:00.000+00:00Richard - in your opinion, does BAA make a good jo...Richard - in your opinion, does BAA make a good job of running our airports?<BR/><BR/>Airports may have little influence, but that's not the same as no influence. I'm thinking, to use what may be an extreme example here, of Dundee Airport. <BR/><BR/>There isn't the congestion trying to reach Dundee of a morning as there is getting to Edinburgh or (even worse) to Glasgow. Anyone trying to get to Dyce from the wrong side of the Haudagin Roundabout on the A96 could find themselves in difficulties also.<BR/><BR/>So, potentially, Dundee has a catchment area from the south side of Aberdeen, all the way down to Fife and down as far as Stirling. Yet, when it was run by Dundee City Council, there was only one route - the Scot Airways service to LCY.<BR/><BR/>The airport was sold off to HIAL a while back. Since then, Dundee has gone from one route to 3, with the possibility of a route being opened up to Schipol in the New Year. It's still running at a loss, but it does suggest that there's more to it than simply waiting for an airline to turn up to start a route.<BR/><BR/>It might be a while away yet, but if that route to Schipol came off, I bet BAA would start to take notice at Aberdeen, which is a hell of an expensive airport to fly from, it seems. All of a sudden, Aberdeen wouldn't be the only airport in the North East from where you could fly to a hub and onto the rest of the world.<BR/><BR/>That's a lot of leisure travellers, as well as oil executives who would no longer have to tolerate the high prices of flights from Aberdeen, the Gehenna that is Heathrow, or in the case of folk who use Edinburgh, the overcrowding and delays of an airport apparently bursting at the seams. Competition in action?Richard Thomsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00380671811598211337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21660941.post-27867306849975111402008-12-20T23:08:00.000+00:002008-12-20T23:08:00.000+00:00The fact is that airports have very little influen...The fact is that airports have very little influence over which destinations get served and which airlines serve them.<BR/><BR/>Quite right. It's this type of mindset which drives me out of my tree.James Highamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14525082702330365464noreply@blogger.com