Originally Posted by
Zaphod
HLZ has the advantage of proximity and the ability to improving infrastructure at much lower cost. There are some weather related issues such as fog, but modern ILS systems present on larger aircraft (e.g. CAT IIIB, CAT IIIC) would render this mostly a non issue.
I suspect given HLZ's lacklustre passenger numbers (they are now the 10th busiest well behind NPL at 9th), they will be looking at both this option and becoming a freight hub. It will however IMO be a difficult sell to carriers.
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