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One that knows it’ll get free money. They’ll secure an FBO, probably Western again, and they’ll hail it as significant news, y’know like how I managed to go buy a load of bread from the Co-op earlier. Significant! But ultimately it’s all at a cost.

Cessnas, business jets potentially, ‘medical flights’ that already operate into Gamston down the road. None of this pays the bills. In fact if they’re planning on opening a highly regulated airport it costs them money to host such flights 9 times out of 10. Have you noticed that amongst this...

More distraction. ‘We are moving forward’ and ‘we are bringing the start of flights forward’. Note that the articles doing the rounds mention ‘private jets, medical and leisure pilots’. You can tell this latest release has been written by someone who doesn’t understand themselves what’s actually...

I think the thing that bothers me most about it now is the way these politicians and their hangers on have gone about actively deceiving the public. Whether it’s intentional or not is irrelevant, but what is clear is that this thing just isn’t going to work and so throwing a tonne of money at it...

Funny you should say that. I’ve got AI to Fact-Check his ‘fact check’. Here are the results.

For the avoidance of doubt, and in case anyone was incredibly concerned as to how my bet went at Aintree (as I’ve just seen my post has been screenshotted and shared elsewhere, which I’m happy with BTW) I did indeed back I Am Maximus. Sadly though the winnings will not buy me that Aston Martin...

Possibly, but I sense this is being led by Jason Charity who, in spite of his political leaning, does know a thing or two about this sort of thing. I don’t recall him being in the photo op outside their Salford HQ. Someone appears to have shot Chadwick down on his own page by pointing out IFRS...

In the interest of some balance I asked if there is any chance he could be correct. This was its reply. Seems to me that this confirms Peel want a genuine third party to operate the airport and take on the risk, least they certainly did at the point of agreeing the lease in 2024. Clearly the...

I see Chadwick has done what I’d like to coin ‘a Chadwick’ on his campaign site. Looks like he’s managed to source some of the lease details from a Facebook group he’s blocked from. Anyway, rather than scour through it too much here is what AI has to say whilst I wait for the big one at Aintree!

He’s said that before, I’m not sure where he thinks all that’s going to come from. The talk about this inland port and some synergies with the Humber shipping ports but there’s no aviation relevance to this because those goods are shipped rather than carried as air freight for very good reasons...

They won’t, but this strong arm tactic will work and they’ll be forced to rescind their motion to revoke the loan. Regirge are terrible, it’s evidenced by this councillor who resigned over being told to vote yes to the loan because she didn’t believe in it, she’s now today come out in favour of...

I think they were planning on issuing a statement today but that obviously didn’t happen. I agree though, it’s terrible reporting did they say whether they contacted Reform for comment? I suspect there’ll be some back room dealing going on and they’ll suddenly decide they aren’t going to rescind...

I don’t think that’s even registered as a threat to be honest. Their priorities at the moment are to harangue the councillors who may have formed this quorum and threaten them to fall back in line. I do note they’ve seen about the Cardiff victory, but crucially the reason it was found in favour...

Rabbitfoot once again failing to read the room. The Cardiff thing will come back to bite them guaranteed. Ignoring the specific nuances that apply to Cardiff (and enabled a favourable outcome) that do not exist in the case of DSA. there are far bigger concerns for DSA presently.

Sorry, who are Reform or Labour?

I think Coppard still genuinely supports the reopening. They’re actually aggressively releasing statements to the local news outlets blaming their opposition for trying to kill the project. If they were trying to scapegoat they’d probably go in a lot less direct. Indeed if they really wanted an...

As @Egyptian King says, off-ramps in this context have been advised by the external auditors to the council. As other councils can attest, ignore this advice at your peril as some have gone bankrupt by doing just that! The off-ramps in this case are to avoid escalation of cost. Once the...

In the last ‘good’ year of operations 1.2mppa with a revenue of £11.7million and operating loss of £10.6million.

Yes, well he’s also been seen commenting about ‘what of all the staff and the investment that’s already been paid in, who is out of pocket for that if it’s wrapped up’? He’s walked straight into the sunk cost fallacy that Grant Thornton have warned about. The council have been told they must set...

The mechanic has issued a statement on his page, aided perhaps by Chat GBT with probable input from the cabal.