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An yes it’s all about ‘people, our livelihoods and our future’. Errr, no it isn’t it’s about an airport that he can’t accept is not viable. This has never been about jobs, if it was he’d be holding rallies every time there’s been an announcement of hundreds of jobs at risk at firms across...

The money allocated so far was £16.1million from SYMCA (don’t believe this to be Gainshare but could be wrong) and £17.4 million from the Doncaster Council general fund. How much of that is left I’ve no idea. They claim the £57million is required to get the airport open, if York Aviations own...

A sober but realistic conclusion. As a renegotiated lease will be subject to a gagging order, Reform might be hamstrung by the inability to discuss the terms of the lease. SYMCA will keep dangling the carrot of Gainshare but without a fundamental rewriting of the lease they won’t sign it off so...

I’d not be surprised if they’ve hard baked severance in there to reduce the risk. These will be questions any diligent budding applicant will have asked I would have thought, they know the risks and probably wouldn’t move into it without some Yes, 2Excel will want to be lending their support to...

We’ve said this before though, he’s only saying the same things people like Ros Jones are saying when challenged. We knew at the time that when Ros Jones agreed with the then leader of Regurge at Doncaster Council to complete a soft market test ‘at the soonest opportunity’ she was just trying to...

I see the chap running warton ATC has been encouraged to move across.

I think odds stacked against that happening. On what planet would you think its acceptable to blatantly make things up and expect not to be put straight by people who appear, in this instance, to have an idea of what they’re talking about? It really is strange behaviour and it’s done his cause...

It would appear that Chadwick really has done a… Chadwick. The point he seems to have missed is that he’s scuppered his own argument by asking if Reform would rather delay to get a private investor.. ‘Then what’? He says. Alluding to the fact that there probably won’t be a private investor...

You have to remember (as I’m sure you know), they’re in the process of making it too big to fail. These appointments have probably been brought forward, that FBO news has also been hastened. They’re throwing the kitchen sink at it to ensure that if Reform even try to pull the plug they’ll drag...

No the loan is most definitely secured against the council and not Gainshare. You cannot take a loan out on something that hasn’t been approved. Shame they aren’t obliged to disclose this information. Looks like a reshuffle in local councils likely, predicted to be a Lib Dem or Green majority...

No doubt Christian Foster will be in attendance at routes, telling all the airlines he is a ‘private sector’ or someting abd promoting the growing trade synergies between Doncaster and Kazerbaijan.

Sunk cos fallacy on full effect. https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/transport/doncaster-sheffield-airport-critical-vote-on-future-of-airport-pushed-back-7281955 This is getting to the point where legal intervention should be made. Trying to frame it as ‘well we’re paying people now so…’ is...

They’ve kicked the meeting back to the 11th. Doesn’t take a genius to work out why.

I remember Peel built one back in 2000 or perhaps earlier and they had airlines who’d had expressed interest as partners. This included easyjet and other big players. This was pre-public enquiry. I don’t remember them launching the new website until just before the airport opened.

According to a mate of mine who works offshore in geology and seabed mapping it’s not as simple as that. I say that as someone who tends to agree with you, but it’s really not quite as much an answer to our potential problems as it might otherwise appear. I’m therefore a big believer in...

This is troubling isn’t it, since we know that the money is being held in deadlock with the SYMCA CFO. Unless anything has changed behind closed doors, but I’ve not seen any evidence of this. Worrying isn’t it.

I think the money was the deciding factor. CDC needed a credible name and on face value you can’t get more credible than a major airport OPCO like MAI. I need to point out that I don’t believe the lack of mention of them on the new website confirms they’ve parted ways, there’s a good chance they...

Seems a hastily prepared website has been launched. https://www.flydsa.com/ Anyone else notice how there appears to be no mention of MAI in any of this? Perhaps I’m missing something, not scoured it completely but you’d think with such a high profile appointment they’d at least me mentioned...

Latest post by Coppards mate and transport fanatic who sometimes advises SYMCA. Sorry but when I saw him comparing travel times to Bristol with those economic powerhouses of Doncaster, Barnsley and Rotherham I just couldn’t resist…

@GolfFox yes there’s been a lot of desperate scrambling for some ‘news’ to balance out the growing cynicism of the project. I’ve noticed even former ardent supporters have completely changed from blindly following to actually asking these pertinent questions. Why has no private investor been...