(25 Oct 2016, 9:30 pm)Andreos1 wrote Newcastle are stating they're happy with the third runway, as it guarantees the service between the two airports. Apparently BA were wanting to give up domestic slots to feed foreign demands.
I personally doubt that would have happened - without the spokes, the hub doesn't work.

Interesting! That might be why BA sounded surprisingly cold about it at one point, saying it wasn't worth the money. What Willie Walsh meant was it wasn't worth Londoners paying for something primarily benefitting er......... Londoners (maybe he should join the Rail passenger's lobby). I'd heard that part of the justification for a third Runway was to *increase* the proportion of domestic feeder flights