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Stephen Farrow · October 26th 06, 10:40 PM posted to uk.transport.london

wrote:
Mizter T wrote:
I'm fascinated by these postwar notions of STOLports everywhere!
Reading about the development of London City Airport it would seem that
in the 80's people were pretty certain that STOLports were going to be
big as well - but whilst LCY is doing well STOLports haven't cropped up
everywhere else as was predicted. I'm not an expert on LCY, but as it's
had a runway extension to enable it to take larger aircraft perhaps it
doesn't really qualify as a STOLport anymore. Or maybe the term just
never really caught on!

Off the top of my head, they have them in Belfast and Toronto too - and
probably other places with disused docklands.

True, though there is only very limited scheduled airline service from
Toronto Island airport at the moment (and there has been none for a big
chunk of this year). It's a big political hot potato at the moment,
since a start-up airline is planning to introduce a great deal more
service next year to a much larger range of destinations, using aircraft
which, fully laden and fuelled, need a longer runway (the runway is
*short*).

--

Stephen

We had a fairy, not a Gary Lineker.