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Representation by Lab-Tools Ltd. (nano-science) (Lab-Tools Ltd. (nano-science))

Date submitted
3 September 2018
Submitted by
Members of the public/businesses
  1. Travelling via Manston Airport rather than Heathrow saves 2 working days and hundreds of pounds in additional expenses, per business trip, a significant expense for a micro-SME, multiple times per year.
  2. With Manston Airport, customers near any major airport in Europe could fly KLM to be at the Lab-Tools nano-science laboratories, and be drinking coffee discussing projects at the lab by mid-morning.
  3. When the Manston Airport closure was announced, Directors and Visitors to the laboratories had a total of 8 international flights booked via Manston, not all of which were able to take place.
  4. When Manston Airport closed, Lab-Tools used publicly available data to show that with the rapid turnaround at Manston Airport, travellers were in the air quicker, travelling via Manston airport, from anywhere on or East of the Gatwick Airport boundary, and at or South of any category A station in London, by either road or rail, than via Heathrow or Gatwick airports. Due to the increased congestion and extended queuing times on the runways, this area has probably since grown larger, indicating the large catchment area Manston Airport will have for passengers.
  5. Lab-Tools is highly dependent on next-day and other rapid forms of sample, component and tool delivery. It is indeed remarkable how rapidly these arrive, even from the West coast of the USA. However one or more transit days are lost by not having a freight airport with good capacity in the South East of the UK, ad it is hoped that a re-opened Manston will assist with this.
  6. Lab-Tools fully support RSP and Manston Airport in the creation of a large number of good, well paid local jobs, which are desperately needed by the local populace and particularly by the youth of Thanet.
  7. RSP are apparently intending to institute training and education so that local people can apply for aviation related jobs. Lab-Tools fully supports this for the Thanet and East-Kent populations, and hopes that this will result in a larger number of technically trained local people that could be employed to assist in the Lab-Tools laboratory. .