The PSO isn't even Stormont money, it is Westminster funding. The councillor is complaining about local council funding, the annual £2 million, but he represents Strabane so his constituents are only paying a fraction of the subvention and they have only just started since the super councils a few years ago.
He has previously stated it should be Stormont funding rather than local government funding and he is right about that but calling for the airport's closure is a failure to understand the greater economic benefits plus the status of a city having an airport. We'd be the only city in Ireland without one. You'd literally be wiping yourself off the map.
The real problem isn't having an airport, it is not having a university, decentralisation and a fair share of inward investment. The airport doesn't work because the economy doesn't work. For a local councillor to state the airport is doomed to failure would imply he sees no economic progress at any time in the future. Rather than calling for the airport's closure, what is he doing about the economy and the discrimination/Belfast centric government policies.