In message , at 14:22:01 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.


You still don't get it do you? Infrastructure needs to be *operated* as
well as built. Planes need servicing, fuelling, crewing and so on.
Without transit passengers, the number of flights at Heathrow (and thus
the revenue generated for the area) would be down by around a third. So
that's a third of both the direct and indirect workforce laid off.
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Roland Perry

On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 15:49:09 +0100, Roland Perry
wrote:

In message , at 14:22:01 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.


You still don't get it do you? Infrastructure needs to be *operated* as
well as built. Planes need servicing, fuelling, crewing and so on.
Without transit passengers, the number of flights at Heathrow (and thus
the revenue generated for the area) would be down by around a third. So
that's a third of both the direct and indirect workforce laid off.

I think we know that Boltar doesn't get the concept of a hub airport.
He asks the same questions every time it comes up, but never reads the
answers. And unlike Mr Bell, he's rude with it.

On Wed, 03 Sep 2014 16:49:14 +0100
Recliner wrote:
I think we know that Boltar doesn't get the concept of a hub airport.
He asks the same questions every time it comes up, but never reads the
answers. And unlike Mr Bell, he's rude with it.

When I see a proper answer I'll let you know.

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Spud

On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 11:10:04 GMT, d wrote:

On Wed, 03 Sep 2014 16:49:14 +0100
Recliner wrote:
I think we know that Boltar doesn't get the concept of a hub airport.
He asks the same questions every time it comes up, but never reads the
answers. And unlike Mr Bell, he's rude with it.

When I see a proper answer I'll let you know.

That's very kind of you, Boltar.

On Wed, 3 Sep 2014 15:49:09 +0100
Roland Perry wrote:
You still don't get it do you? Infrastructure needs to be *operated* as
well as built. Planes need servicing, fuelling, crewing and so on.
Without transit passengers, the number of flights at Heathrow (and thus
the revenue generated for the area) would be down by around a third. So
that's a third of both the direct and indirect workforce laid off.

Exactly. Thats all it is. A few airport/airline specific jobs whose benefit
to the country as a whole would be barely measurable. For the same money
thousands of startups could be invested in which in the long term would
generate far more revenue. And wouldn't **** off a million people with
noise and pollution.

--
Spud

In message , at 11:09:39 on Thu, 4 Sep
2014, d remarked:
You still don't get it do you? Infrastructure needs to be *operated* as

well as built. Planes need servicing, fuelling, crewing and so on.

Without transit passengers, the number of flights at Heathrow (and thus

the revenue generated for the area) would be down by around a third. So

that's a third of both the direct and indirect workforce laid off.



Exactly. Thats all it is. A few airport/airline specific jobs whose benefit

to the country as a whole would be barely measurable.

A third of Heathrow's contribution to the economy is getting on for
£2BN.
--
Roland Perry