Newquay

[Navpi]

Its funded by the DFT with taxpayer money and somewhat oddly Cornwall council.

Absolutely no objection to a direct Heathrow service but a taxpayer subsidy from the DFT ?

Any route should stand or fall on merit, if the Newquay service is so important the demand has to be there. You cannot prop up a service and distort the market with UK wide taxpayer monies whilst then claiming it's a vital air link, if nobody uses it, it's clearly not that vital. And why should Newquay claim a service over say Liverpool OR Durham?
Who decides who gets what ?

i presume that politically there was no mileage in giving consideration to a Liverpool service which is of course staunch Labour.

....and as for the local council chipping in. Clearly this is a better ways to spend ratepayers money than social care and keeping libraries open.

It smacks of a contrived marketing ploy between the DFT and HAL.

And where have 8 slots a day suddenly appeared from, is Derren Brown working approach ?