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I often wonder what would have become of Filton had it become the main airport for Brsitol and the South West and not Lulsagte too. It would have been an ideal location, rail links, motorways quite near to the City but not too near to be a problem and the runway was already built there! They were stupid not to take that excellent opportunity back then. I suspect Bristol International Airport would be about the same size as Birmingham now to be honest. Also as Spence CWL said it was not on a hill which leads me into my reply to SpenceCWL

The CO flights are in the morning around 07:30. Yes, Bristol Airport is on a hill and suffers from bad weather rather frequently but it has a state of the art CAT III landing system so this should not be a problem for the a/c. CWL and EXT are thr main relief airports for BRS and sometimes FZO (Filton).