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Old Sep 10, 2014 | 4:09 pm
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Originally Posted by kanderson1965
NCL does have a fair proportion of leisure travel and in addition its catchment area includes Cumbria and the Borders/parts of Dumfries and Galloway. All of these areas could easily switch to GLA/EDI.
And I'm right in the middle with 4 airports within a 90 minute drive, though MME is more of an airstrip these days. You also need to factor in things like car parking charges, where NCL is cheaper than EDI and a lot cheaper than GLA. layz is right that NCL management is worried about the APD issue, mind you they have always moaned about APD. On the other hand they directly control the parking fees for 80% of the airport's car parking spaces, more than GLA and EDI, so there are some remedies in their own hands. [And I've spent another evening shoving out Better Together leaflets, just for the record.]
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