Last weeks more than 500 Cherry and Whites fans – and the Munster players – used the County’s Airport making it a record-breaking day at Staverton. Head of Operations, Darren Lewington is quoted saying; “It was a very busy weekend. We handled more passengers on Saturday than ever before in a single day. On Saturday evening, it looked very much like the chaos at Heathrow’s Terminal 5, as coach loads of fans crammed into our tiny terminal. Operationally, the ATR72 is about the largest aeroplane that the Airport can accommodate, but four at once left us very short of parking space. We had to extend the opening hours to allow the aircraft to depart after the match and the Munster team’s flight was the last to take off at 1020pm.”This is yet another example that contradicts the Airports claims about expansion - it seems that almost every month they are announcing a new service - and that is before the runway gets approved. If as they are claim the runway extension is not about expansion why wont they accept a cap on flights at their current levels? Indeed they are not even happy with a 100,000 flight cap - and on top of that the planes are set to get bigger. If that isn't expansion then they have a strange definition!!
I have to say I am deeply disappointed that some journalists are still reporting the airport lie that this is about safety and nothing to do with expansion.
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