Quite agree Navpi. Scrutiny by the BBC has been dire.
Just heard Grayling on the BBC assert that because airports such as Liverpool and Newcastle supported Heathrow expansion, it shows it's a project that benefits the whole of the UK.
Hmmm. Spot the absence of the second and third largest cities in England and Scotland's capital with much larger airports, did you? No follow up question to Grayling of course.
And didn't the Transport Committee indicate that Newcastle and Liverpool could actually be two of the airports to lose some of their other direct services, along with Manchester and Leeds in the North? (Someone quoted the figures above but I can't find it now).