Originally Posted by MonkeyB
However the £1.5m already spent is on developing the civilian facilities at Valley which is much more likely to turn out to be money well spent if it translates into attracting commercially viable routes - London (probably Stanstead) and Dublin are pretty good contenders.
That's an interesting point. I don't know the area well (having only seen the view from the A55) - do you think there's actually a large enough catchment around Valley (especially business travellers willing to pay more for the time saving versus road/rail/HSS) to justify further scheduled air services?