Originally Posted by
machtuk
Remember the lessors of YMEN are in it for money, not cause they love planes! There's money in everything bar aviation! The only thing that's stopping YMEN from closing as a drome completely is the EMS facility. take that away & you can kiss YMEN goodbye!
machtuk,
Not so, there would need to be a very major, indeed fundamental change to the terms and conditions of the head lease. That change would also fly in the face of the current Commonwealth Government airport policy. And, for that matter Cth Labor policy.
More importantly, given the relative political weights of Lindsay Fox, versus those whose aircraft (the bigger ones, not flying schools etc.) use YMEN, the political likelihood of that lease amendment happening is remote ---- and the newspaper talk about how the airport was expected to be closed to aviation once it was leased is plain nonsense. An additional factor is that the Commonwealth Government will not do anything that assist the ambitions of the ratbag left, both within and surrounding the Andrews state government, to close YMEN.
Whether some like it or not, YMEN is quite an important cog in the Victorian industrial and business machine.
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