Route Development & Rumours

I really think that any chances of any direct flights from bhx to USA has a very 0 chances occuring, whether it's to do with it's closeness to Manchester Airport or Heathrow Airport. Why pay a Chief Executive Officer, like Mr Nick Barton,£550,000, per year, for a bucket and spade operation is ridiculous. It's not as if any major airlines are banging or knocking on the airports front door, desperate to engage in any real serious business with the airport. Because that isn't the case and it's never going to happen, as I have said before, Birmingham Airports business model, simple doesn't work, by attracting the cliental that it's looking or wanting to attract. It's charging policy for attracting business airlines is clearly not fit for use, also it's majority shareholder, are the seven metropolitan councils, that are not allowed to help financially due to the airport as private company and public bodies are prohibited in any funding at all, whereas minority shareholders, limit funding only when required. Birmingham airport needs majority investment to keep it going. Otherwise it will fall behind it's competitors, where they will expand further, leaving Birmingham, chasing shadows like it has for years. Forward thinking is needed and not the reverse.
 
andrew.clarkson said:
I really think that any chances of any direct flights from bhx to USA has a very 0 chances occuring, whether it's to do with it's closeness to Manchester Airport or Heathrow Airport. Why pay a Chief Executive Officer, like Mr Nick Barton,£550,000, per year, for a bucket and spade operation is ridiculous. It's not as if any major airlines are banging or knocking on the airports front door, desperate to engage in any real serious business with the airport. Because that isn't the case and it's never going to happen, as I have said before, Birmingham Airports business model, simple doesn't work, by attracting the cliental that it's looking or wanting to attract. It's charging policy for attracting business airlines is clearly not fit for use, also it's majority shareholder, are the seven metropolitan councils, that are not allowed to help financially due to the airport as private company and public bodies are prohibited in any funding at all, whereas minority shareholders, limit funding only when required. Birmingham airport needs majority investment to keep it going. Otherwise it will fall behind it's competitors, where they will expand further, leaving Birmingham, chasing shadows like it has for years. Forward thinking is needed and not the reverse.
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You appear to offer zero evidence for anything you say, and the facts that are happening on the ground dont match anything in "your" reality.

"It's not as if any major airlines are banging or knocking on the airports front door"- How do you know. Such conversations are highly sensitive and confidential. Having major bases with some of the largest airlines in the UK Market and hosting a range of full services carriers for an airport our size is testament to that.

"Birmingham Airports business model, simple doesn't work, by attracting the cliental that it's looking or wanting to attract." - Given the airport is experience record profitability and record passenger numbers, who evidence do you suggest that their business model isn't working?

"also it's majority shareholder, are the seven metropolitan councils, that are not allowed to help financially due to the airport as private company and public bodies are prohibited in any funding at all" - How do you explain Manchester Airport Group then who majority shareholders are also local authorities. or is Manchester also not fit for business? Where do you explain the £100m a year in investment going into the airport?
 
Nibbles said:
I wouldnt go that far. Interestingly, I've noticed several billboards with adverts for United flights to New York in and around Birmingham city centre in the last few weeks - there is (sometimes) no smoke without fire.
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I've seen one on the electronic advertising boards in Touchwood as I did a proper double-take on it!!
 
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