September 3rd 14, 03:22 PM
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As predicted, Boris Island sunk
On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 10:10:58 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:00:07 on Wed, 3 Sep
2014, d remarked:
Just how exactly does a hub airport help UK plc when
most of the
passengers will be passing through on to elsewhere and will
probably
just spend a few quid in duty free?
It helps because they don't just buy a few duty-frees, they buy a whole
onward flight, with all the infrastructure and staffing which that
implies.
So some construction work and a couple of hundred airport staffing jobs plus
air fares that probably go to a foreign airline in a foreign bank. Well
obviously thats really worth all the pollution , noise and a few billion
quid of taxpayers money.
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