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According the airport’s accounts for the year to March 2025, the had outlays of about £47m and passenger numbers were just short of 4.3m, so yes, £11 per passenger is needed to cover the outgoings. Before the low-cost revolution, a big chunk of that would have been in the flight ticket price...

Maybe controversial, but my own view is that anyone posting a response from AI should show their prompt and the model used. A properly crafted prompt in the most sophisticated version paid for version of Claude is going to give you a different (and probably better) response than the basic...

What does ‘a full regional hub’ even mean ?

I looked at the CAA data for 2025 and in total LBA handled just short of 200k passengers to all Turkish destinations. So even if it dropped by 30%, that’s ‘only’ 60k of the 4.5m.

I don’t think anyone has said it wouldn’t be a good idea if it could be done. What they have argued - over and over again - is that it obviously can’t be done economically. It clearly must be more complicated than just repainting the runway markings, otherwise it would have been done...

Exactly, all the REGEN plans and the debt finance in place to fund it, is something that they will have had visibility on.They will also have looked at the airport’s passenger growth plans, the night flying rules and anything else relevant to making a major investment. Unless they negotiated...

Aena are professional airport investors and operators. Therefore you have to assume that if major investment in the runway was needed they would have identified that in their due diligence and as a result wouldn’t have invested at all or they would have demanded a deep discount on the valuation.

As someone without a dog in this particular fight, I think the YP have done a pretty good job. The supporter's echo chamber think they are massively critical and on the payroll of LBA and the opposition echo chamber is convinced they are puffing it all up. Which probably means they are doing...

LBA certainly aren’t spending £100m on the extension. I think the figure quoted was closer to £30/£40m. Nor was it extended ‘a bit’ - its a very sizeable increase in space. For the £100m in total they are also completely gutting and redesigning what was the existing terminal. And 2 new...

That is the case with the initial slot filings, but this is the start of season report which should closely reflect the on sale schedule. Other than Ryanair to Cork, it all seems to stack up to me. The main increases are Easyjet 2 x weekly to BCN (19,000 seats Jet2, 171 more flights 37,000...

The airport coordination reports for lba, ema and lpl show the number of seats filed as LBA +227,000 more seats (summer 26 vs summer 25) EMA +219,000 more seats LPL +170,000 more seats I appreciate that in the modern age of social media where we have airports posting news (as they should) and...

I’m not sure its true that all airports other than LBA have seen sizeable expansion.

Personally I think their PR strategy is an unmitigated shambles. Their pitch to the general public is basically ‘we’re a group of middle class boomers that bought houses in wealthy parts of Leeds near the airport but we really hate the airport going about its business’ Unsurprisingly this...

I read the article and it seemed to give both sides of the story equal weighting, which is what he’s paid to do.

This statement.was included today in a series of announcements by the West Yorks Combined Authority. Leeds A commitment to a new Leeds Bradford Airport Parkway Train Station will serve the airport, making way for smoother transport for travellers, and for those commuting to work. This will...