Peculiar news from Oxfordshire where the local Powers That Be have chosen to rename Kidlington Airport, Oxford.
It’s now called London Oxford Airport.
Yesterday it took me three hours to travel to from Oxford to the 02 Arena. It also took me three hours to get from Victoria back to Oxford.
London Oxford Airport.
When I see those words I expect to see a hyphen between the first two.
London – Oxford Airport, as in ‘London to Oxford’.
Because with a six-hour round-trip yesterday, surely the only way London and Oxford can fit so comfortably together in a sentence is linked by air travel!
Anyway.
The people responsible for the rebranding of Kidlington Airport, sorry, London – Oxford Airport have said that Kidlington is the only airport between London and Birmingham.
And?
As Birmingham International Airport is the only international airport between London and Manchester, does that mean that we should expect Birmingham International Airport to be shortly renamed London Birmingham International Airport?
Where does it stop?
London Glasgow International Airport?
London Reykjavik Airport?
London Sydney Airport?
This is obviously one of those ‘silly season stories which, because of the quiet news cycle, is being picked up and played out in the media.
But unfortunately it’s a silly season story being perpetrated upon us by some incredibly silly people.
London – Oxford Airport?
Give me a break!
And I thought that “Stockholm Skavsta” was bad – 100km away from Stockholm!
It is crazy to say the least. The guy from the airport when trying to justify the name change on the news yesterday just looked like a complete tool.
I didn’t come across this story yesterday so thanks for the smile this morning.
It is very much silly season, I agree. NIB in today’s Metro claims: “Computer game addicts are more likely to be fat, depressed geeks who rely on the internet for friends.” No shit Sherlock.