Weatherley wants to rename Gatwick Airport

[Buzzer]

The near total death of transatlantic flights was the main thing I was thinking of.

Sorry for my ignorance but I've got no idea what you mean by that but I presume that has been picked up by other airports. In a market with so many airlines I'd have thought that there wouldn't have been an awful lot of demand that hasn't been catered for. As I say, I'm not up to speed on airlines and airports but I would have thought that increased profits, passenger numbers and the fact that the owners had to sell Stansted because they were so profitable would suggest that deregulation has seen them do well.

I can think of lots of people better placed to have an airport named after them though. Personally, I'd go for Sir Archibald McIndoe, the plastic surgeon who re-built the burnt and battered bodies of injured pilots in WWII.

 

[Westdene Seagull]

Sorry for my ignorance but I've got no idea what you mean by that but I presume that has been picked up by other airports. In a market with so many airlines I'd have thought that there wouldn't have been an awful lot of demand that hasn't been catered for. As I say, I'm not up to speed on airlines and airports but I would have thought that increased profits, passenger numbers and the fact that the owners had to sell Stansted because they were so profitable would suggest that deregulation has seen them do well.

Think you might be confusing this with the previous owners of Gatwick - BAA 0 who were forced to sell both airports.

 

[Tom Bombadil]

I can think of lots of people better placed to have an airport named after them though. Personally, I'd go for Sir Archibald McIndoe, the plastic surgeon who re-built the burnt and battered bodies of injured pilots in WWII.

I think that's a really good suggestion.

 

[Cian]

Sorry for my ignorance but I've got no idea what you mean by that but I presume that has been picked up by other airports. In a market with so many airlines I'd have thought that there wouldn't have been an awful lot of demand that hasn't been catered for. As I say, I'm not up to speed on airlines and airports but I would have thought that increased profits, passenger numbers and the fact that the owners had to sell Stansted because they were so profitable would suggest that deregulation has seen them do well.

The owners were BAA and had to sell both Gatwick and Stansted because it was deemed a near monopoly

Under regulation - which I'm not saying I supported - many airlines were barred from doing TATL from Heathrow and hence did it from Gatwick. I believe that's why Virgin are HQed in Crawley, they didn't initially get access to Heathrow.

Since deregulation of that market, which is still quite recent, virtually all of them have left, and Gatwick has become nearly entirely leisure travel based. Which is certainly delivering it passenger numbers, but definitely not the income they could have had if they still had all the US airlines.

 

[Vegas Seagull]

Sums the man up that his first visit to Withdean was the week after he became an MP?

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Sums the man up that his first visit to Withdean was the week after he became an MP?

Was it a freebie ?

 

[Baron Pepperpot]

Fat Boy International... 'Fly right here, right now'

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Sums the man up that his first visit to Withdean was the week after he became an MP?

Thatcher Airport. What a numpty.