Alternative transport strategies

David Fish has sent this question from the Bite-Sized Masters of Business Administration Course delivered by Rupert Vernalls (below):

Question – what is the biggest airline in the World?

Answer – A regional airline!

Question – what airline

Answer – South West Airlines America

Question – How do they do it

Answer – effective (and alternative) strategies

e.g. Standardised Aircraft, technicians, pilots

e.g. Agreements with airports

e.g. Turnaround process

e.g. Frequent Flights

for example – South West Airlines only flies from secondary airports and turns round in 30 minutes

 

David  says, "Doesn’t this suggest that we could look deeper into alternatives to provide

High Speed 2 and  airport capacity in South East England?"

 

 

 

Very relevant, especially now that Birmingham is proposing to make its airport bigger than Heathrow, specifically tied-in to HS2.