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It is my belief that the council know a CPO would be expensive. I also believe they know there’s a high likelihood of the failure reoccurring and so it’s perhaps not in their long term interests to own the land outright. There may be skepticism of Peel (some of which warranted, but not regarding...

No company is investing in integrator facilities, that investment would fall to the land owner of lease holder. It won’t be European and I understand they have restarted flights to Teesside (could be wrong). Whoever they claim it is seems to already have a local operation. The claim that they...

Meanwhile Ros Jones has written (presumably by a ghost writer) ab open letter to Jason Charity. ‘All he needed to do was turn up to the meetings’ apparently. This pathetically misses the point, the meetings did not contain the details of the lease nor the terrible head of terms that she herself...

I’ve asked around and the consensus is that it’s not likely to be all that genuine. When someting seems too good to be true, and when it’s ‘leaked’ conveniently just days before a vote that we’re told could ‘kill’ the project, it’s a safe bet that they’re trying to paint the grass green. When...

Well… It’s time to call their bluff on this. Peel wanted a freight integrator investment for years but they couldn’t ever justify building one as they couldn’t secure a tenant. If this new team have somehow managed to secure a lasting tenant then Peel will want to know as they own the land. I...

These vague press releases were as to be expected and as Speedbird predicted. We’ve also heard it all before haven’t we, certainly during the Peel days. The giveaway to this is that they claim this mystery interested operator are not in discussions with other airports (so why is it so sensitive...

Not much makes sense when it comes to untouchable political projects. Even when it’s blindingly obvious they cannot renege on the ‘will of the people’. The airport is a popular topic, the Cabal are trying to frame it as Reform killing the project, Reform are trying to sell it as saving the...

I thought it was 5? Dan Air Flybe Pan Am TWA Monarch Could be wrong. Christian Foster is on record mentioning easyjet numerous times. The last time he said it as if it was a foregone conclusion, adding that there’ll be flights to emerging markets like Chaiwan and Kajerbaijan - yes I made one...

I suppose under the current model, where in spite of a spurious ‘fact check’20% of the turnover goes to the land owner, they you’re probably right. Yes Donny people and particularly those in Sheffield can quite easily get to other airports and so the captive market, particularly for the price...

Agree completely, but it’s politics. Theres no way the loan would have been approved in November had politics got played the deciding factor in it. Guy Aston was instructed by Tice to whip all councillors into voting in favour, he was then met with a torrent of ‘abuse’ and stood down. They know...

They’ll never directly admit it’s not viable, it’s not politically popular to do so. However what they are clearly saying is that if the private sector won’t invest then it’s not viable. I think Chadwick is seeing the writing on the wall too, as even if it did move on to a different operating...

A question were all eagerly awaiting answers to. The conspiracy theory is Peel designed it to never be a success and/or priced airlines out so they could get the road links in place and close it to build houses or warehouses on it. Conveniently for people who subscribe to such belief (which...

I’m not sure, but I suspect there’ll be some contingency plan. Pulling the £57million would certainly provide at least a headache, I suspect their orders for equipment are contingent on securing this money along side their plans to ramp up recruitment to 200 people by the end of the year. As...

I wouldn’t be too sure. Jason Charity had Chadwick and the reopening project bang to rights, he has commented that he’s seen the business plan and stated that he could tell within a couple of pages that it doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Quite clearly the problem is that the private sector aren’t...

I’d suggest let him believe that’s possible 😉 we don’t know how peel would react if there was a credible offer to purchase the site using CPO as the bargaining chip. We do know Peel are open to selling so long as it’s a price they feel respects the investment they already made into the site...