Yet Another New Airport
Dec 17th 2007, 5:17 am
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Yet Another New Airport
According to the Gulf News website, they are going to build an international airport at Ajman costing AED12 billion...in addition to the new monstrosity being constructed at Jebel Ali...it seems like the Emirates are permanently in competition with each other...the money would be better spent on improved living conditions for the expat construction workers, new hospitals, schools and road improvements in my humble opinion...but perhaps I am too boring.
Dec 17th 2007, 5:22 am
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Re: Yet Another New Airport
According to the Gulf News website, they are going to build an international airport at Ajman costing AED12 billion...in addition to the new monstrosity being constructed at Jebel Ali...it seems like the Emirates are permanently in competition with each other...the money would be better spent on improved living conditions for the expat construction workers, new hospitals, schools and road improvements in my humble opinion...but perhaps I am too boring.
Dec 17th 2007, 5:28 am
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Re: Yet Another New Airport
Wow...I didn't even know we had a LHR terminal 5 yet...so where are they being constructed?
Dec 17th 2007, 6:24 am
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Technically Terminal 5 is still under construction. Sits In front of terminal 4, closer to the M25. BAA are thinking ahead and asking permission to build terminal 6 AND a third runway, (Thats whats causing the grief with all the greenines and NIMBY's). Terminal 4 is a sh*thole IMHO and needs improvment drastically.
Dec 18th 2007, 6:32 am
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Re: Yet Another New Airport
According to the Gulf News website, they are going to build an international airport at Ajman costing AED12 billion...in addition to the new monstrosity being constructed at Jebel Ali...it seems like the Emirates are permanently in competition with each other...the money would be better spent on improved living conditions for the expat construction workers, new hospitals, schools and road improvements in my humble opinion...but perhaps I am too boring.
Dec 18th 2007, 6:34 am
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Re: Yet Another New Airport
But Sharjah International Airport and R-A-K International Airport are just down the road.
Dec 18th 2007, 7:38 am
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If I have to arrive on holiday through Sharjah Airport it would probably be the last time I came.
Its a glorified bus station!
Its a glorified bus station!
Dec 18th 2007, 7:54 am
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The airport is going to cater mostly for Cargo and low cost carriers - so it is aiming more at regional tourism. And thus not entirely competing with Dubai.
Dec 18th 2007, 9:51 am
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Technically Terminal 5 is still under construction. Sits In front of terminal 4, closer to the M25. BAA are thinking ahead and asking permission to build terminal 6 AND a third runway, (Thats whats causing the grief with all the greenines and NIMBY's). Terminal 4 is a sh*thole IMHO and needs improvment drastically.
Dec 18th 2007, 11:25 am
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at least they waited for T4 to be finished before starting on T5 lol... I'm just waiting for standsted to start doing flights to dubai i only live 15 minutes away!
Dec 18th 2007, 1:11 pm
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They're not going to - the Stansted expansion stuff was a smokescreen.
Why expand an airport that
1, no airlines really want to fly from
2, Isn't even operating at 70% capacity
Heathrow (but a modern one) is where all the airlines want to be and where the BAA can make most cash
Why expand an airport that
1, no airlines really want to fly from
2, Isn't even operating at 70% capacity
Heathrow (but a modern one) is where all the airlines want to be and where the BAA can make most cash
Dec 20th 2007, 2:06 pm
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Re: Yet Another New Airport
I never really understood this obsession with Heathrow. Most of the British Isles is North of London (not that you would know it if you talk to the Cockneys
) so Stansted is actually more convenient for most people. Because it is not operating at 150% capacity it is also a much nicer place to fly from/to. Yet everybody wants to go to Heathrow. Why?
) so Stansted is actually more convenient for most people. Because it is not operating at 150% capacity it is also a much nicer place to fly from/to. Yet everybody wants to go to Heathrow. Why?
Dec 21st 2007, 8:11 am
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Re: Yet Another New Airport
I never really understood this obsession with Heathrow. Most of the British Isles is North of London (not that you would know it if you talk to the Cockneys) so Stansted is actually more convenient for most people. Because it is not operating at 150% capacity it is also a much nicer place to fly from/to. Yet everybody wants to go to Heathrow. Why?
) so Stansted is actually more convenient for most people. Because it is not operating at 150% capacity it is also a much nicer place to fly from/to. Yet everybody wants to go to Heathrow. Why?