Speaking as someone who knows Carlisle Airport well from recent experience, there are a number of problems with this proposal for ANY scheduled flights.
1. The PCN of the runway is classified as less than 10!
2. The fire cover available is going to drop as the fire crew are leaving in numbers due to the poor pay and conditions and the way staff are treated by the airport owner.
3. There have been 6 airport managers in the last six years! Mainly good, experienced, competent people who have had no support from the owners, who have left or have been sacked for doing their job.
4. ATC staffing is falling. 3 controllers have left, or are due to leave/retire, in very recent times.
There are a number of other points as well, but until the airport owner decides that he wants an airport, and to run it properly, nothing lasting willl fly from there. The locals think that the owner wants to rezone the land as soon as possible for industrial purposes and sell it off!! The local Council do not want this to happen, bur they may be forced into it, or have to take over the airport again!
