Originally Posted by niknak
So, if it's a sure fire success, why did [B]ALL[B] the scheduled services cease to operate after a very short while?
I have used it and indeed have worked there.
Its a fantastic facilty for the present operators but commercially it has no future, if it had Peel would have kept it going.
Unless of course, you are going to buy it.....
I think you obviously miss the concealled political subtleties of the Peoples Republic, and also the people who missed out on the boom building years of the SDC.
Without transport links, business will keep passing the city by in favour of Manchester, Leeds and Nottingham.
Having a tourist airport at the end of a country lane in Doncastershire is not the same thing (but makes good money for the owners/ operators, no doubt. Pax is pax).