Comments on: Coventry Airport Shuts Down

By: Okuin

Okuin — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 09:45:21 +0000

Coventry can be easily 2 hours from london, its only something over 2 hours by national express.. of course depending on traffic, but the true is that Luton, East Midlands and Birmingham airports are just too close and its not essential there..

By: Stuart

Stuart — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 11:17:33 +0000

Coventry (CVT) made the mistake of trying to jump on the low-cost bandwagon just like every other provincial airport in the UK. For a while, CVT even called itself “West Midlands International Airport” just because they’d managed to attract a couple of token pax services (that anyone with a brain knew couldn’t last). Using this false and egotistical status to jack up the fees they charged to their bread-and-butter General Aviation users was also a serious error, but again a move typical of provincial low-cost bandwagon jumpers, seen elsewhere in SOU, BLK, HUY etc.
CVT used to be a very important (and very busy) night freight hub with a huge Royal Mail operation. The airport would be full of old, rusty and exotic turboprops during the hours of darkness. The phrase “stick with what you know” comes to mind…
Aviation is the most short-term-thinking industry on Earth, IMHO, and this is a shining example of it. I sympathise with the staff who are out of a job just before Christmas, but not with the greedy, blinkered, delusional management who clearly thought they could be the next Stansted.

By: CF

CF — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 14:34:13 +0000

We missed our connection today, but the good news is that there is another flight with room on it later. Lucky. Oliver wrote:

I don’t think we Californians should be in the business of criticizing the residents of that part of the world if they DON’T want additional noise or pollution. It’s not OUR backyard. Maybe write about Palmdale…oh wait, you already did, and there you seemed to not think it needed a commercial airport.

Wait a second; while I certainly don't see the need for a commercial airport in Palmdale at this time, I absolutely wouldn't want to see the airport shut down. I don't want to see any airport shut down. That airport has been in Coventry since before WWII, so my guess is that there are very few people if any who can claim seniority. We've seen enough of a loss of runways over the years - and I will always support the efforts to keep the existing ones alive.

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:26:58 +0000

Re snow in the mid-west… I hear there’s a Concierge service that can help you out if needed. Might want to look into it.

Re “Coventry’s permanent facility was denied thanks to the meddling of environmentalists and the anti-noise crowd. ”

Do you think that anything that environmentalists and the anti-noise crowd oppose is wrong? I don’t know anything about the Coventry airport situation, but it didn’t sound like it was a vibrant airport to begin with (look at the distance from BHX and the large selection of airlines and destinations there), and frankly I don’t think we Californians should be in the business of criticizing the residents of that part of the world if they DON’T want additional noise or pollution. It’s not OUR backyard. Maybe write about Palmdale…oh wait, you already did, and there you seemed to not think it needed a commercial airport.

By: David SFeastbay

David SFeastbay — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:44:37 +0000

The in-laws should have headed west for Christmas, better weather. But not many chances of a white Christmas in Long Beach unless you squint your eyes and pretend the beach sand is white…..lol

By: marek

marek — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 21:04:06 +0000

Never mind how far it is from London. More importantly, it’s 15 miles from Birmingham Airport which has buildings and aeroplanes and fancy stuff like that. So Coventry has no real chance. I can’t think of any good reason why it should come back to life as an airport.

By: Bobber

Bobber — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 19:14:46 +0000

To be fair, Coventry is a sh1thole. Those wishing to escape are than adequately served by surrounding airports.

And it is a bit more than an hour from london – took me 6 and a half hours tocycle there in September!

Merry Christmas everyone (or whatever else takes your fancy), and cheers for another entertaining year, Cranky.

By: CF

CF — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:17:17 +0000

robert wrote:

Erm, Coventry is more then two hours north west of London. Not everything in the UK is ‘just outside London’ ;)

I mean by train. Should have been more clear, so I'll update that.

By: robert

robert — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 16:13:41 +0000

Erm, Coventry is more then two hours north west of London.

Not everything in the UK is ‘just outside London’ ;)