Mr Smith.. you beat me to it – this has been exactly the direction my thoughts have been taking me. Not all the jigsaw pieces are in place yet, but it is only a matter of time. I’ve wondered for months – why so much fuss over a 747 taking off half a dozen times a year? And all that illogical posturing about hundreds and thousands of jobs and hundreds of millions of £ of GVA, all of it so speculative as to be meaningless. No, the prize isn’t space travel: the prize is an upgraded airport sale-ready wiithout the tedium of having to deal with anti-airport expansion environmentalists. You’ve got it.