Lands End Airport
L-End is a very small airfield by 'Airports' standards; it also has substantial 'terrain' in the actual circuit, and no H-int approach lights, or indeed any lights outside of the airfield boundary. Despite what has been stated ie number of non flying days I can assure 'readers' that the actual number of non flying days has been considerably more than 12. Lands End does not have a met station or produce forecasts, and indeed the rapid change of WX is a main consideration when having to operate 'schedules'. The SSCO have always had a surface vessel to move PX when needed and also PZ Heliport would take what it could plus have in the past put on extra flights. The nature of the holiday trade on Scilly makes the Saturday turnaround quite critical as there is no spare bed capacity on the Isles in the season. It is therefore quite reasonable for an 'operator' to wish to base themselves at a location that suits 'their' purpose, and history shows us that PZ for many decades has proved its worth, and indeed was responsible for making Scilly a far more accessible tourist venue in modern times. The ISSCO have not handled this situation very well and have lost the confidence of Islanders that make up part of the customer base. At the end of the day operators should be allowed to decide on what sort of operation they wish to operate and not be forced to use a facility that they feel is less than ideal for the purpose.