Re: Monday 7th July: Panorama on Heathrow

"Roland Perry" <roland@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
news:MmdSMEIR01bIFAhl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> In message <6d91ocF1e3goU1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, at 11:37:52 on Sat, 5
Jul 
> 2008, tim..... <tims_new_home@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> remarked:
>>> And *all* the transfer passengers whether domestic or from further 
>>> afield
>>> help maintain the critical mass of flights especially direct ones
>>
>>I agree that this is an advantage, but I just don't think that LHR
scores
>>any points for this, there are more than enough flights to lots of
>>destinations already.
>
> [Just picking one example] I don't think you can fly to Seattle from 
> anywhere else in the UK, and as I've noted earlier, there wasn't enough 
> demand to fly daily last time I went; but there is now. Having 
> international transfer passengers helps boost the numbers and make a
daily 
> flight economic.

You don't think that the increase in im****tance of the town as an IT
centre 
may have created more of a reason for business people to want to fly
there?

tim