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SWBKCB
What does this even mean? At all of these airfields, scheduled operations have been peripheral, transient activities which don't really impact on the main business. Their presence or absence is no indicator of wider industry wealth.
Indeed, and let’s not forget that Leeds East airport opened on the former RAF Church Fenton in recent years. Whilst this doesn’t operate any scheduled passenger services (and never will), and would financially be better placed as a housing estate, the owner has a keen aviation interest and that is what keeps the place going. The same can be said for a lot of small airports and airfields that I’m sure are currently on DJ6’s chopping block..
The shock that a notoriously ruthless property developer - who built an airport to ‘maximise the potential of the development space in its hinterland’ - have decided that the airport would be better suited as a warehouse park, is bordering on the comical; if it wasn’t for the fact that a lot of people might now have to rethink their career paths...