The latest proposed solution to improved inter-island communications (January 16) is a fascinating prospect.

Presumably the contractors and the authorities have worked out a method of stopping all sea-borne traffic at Mgarr during take-off and landing, up to 13 times (i.e. 26 different operations) a day - and a way of preventing jet-skiers and other idiots playing "chicken" in front of the aircraft's propellers. But, if the aircraft is capable of landing on either land or water, why is the southern connection planned to operate via Grand Harbour and to involve a bus journey, rather than directly to and from Luqa (which, one assumes, is where most potential passengers would require it)?

Is it because they don't want to make it too user-friendly? Or does somebody have a brother-in-law with a bus company?

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