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It would be better to use DSA airport facility to encourage modal shift in transport used by passengers accessing other nearby regional airports that are actually open.
(Securely) Park/express bus (and/or train)/Fly. Make it easy to travel with luggage (a failing of most other public transport), as near to door to door as possible, minimising luggage handling.
Likely would cost less in public money.
The only other vaguely sensible use would be as a freight airport (competing with e.g. Coventry) for all the ecommerce parcels from Asia.
If someone wants to throw money at it, let that be the owner of some European international airport (e.g. Schipol) as a way to abstract customers from using London or Manchester airports for long haul (and neatly bypassing part of Air Passenger Duty), with frequent(ish), cheap(ish) flights to the host hub airport including baggage interlining. Again with convenient long term parking.
@MilesT The devolved parliaments have regional air policies that England lacks. Having local councils as owner/operators is a last resort measure.
KLM do serve the UK regions better than most for long-haul but a connecting flight does not evade any UK-APD.
Anyone know why Bakerloo wash cannot be used from the depot direction?
Having been on the Bakerloo yesterday, the dirty exteriors are the least of the fleet’s problems. The insides are absolutely plastered in graffiti, never seen anything like it. For some reason, it’s not being removed.