Originally Posted by
ShyTorque
Peel bought Sheffield City airport for £1 with the proviso that they tried to keep the airfield open. However, if they could show that it was’t economically sustainable, the land could be developed for other purposes. It didn’t last long as an airport.
History has a habit of repeating itself.
Sheffield City was an airport whose market disappeared (where else is surviving on short-haul turboprops?). They are also the company that transformed Liverpool.