Carbheathot – agree with your comments about who’s apparently paying what. Interesting to know if Peel has actually put any money into MME as yet because the new access road etc. was funded by one of the NE development agencies if I remember correctly.
The viability and future funding of our local airport ideally needs to be raised in the local media because we can discuss opinions on here until the cows come home but it won’t make a blind bit of difference to anything tangible happening at MME. Unfortunately local TV, radio, and newspapers, are clueless about aviation and only ever report the ‘shock horror, passengers delayed for 5 minutes on Malaga flight’ garbage. Anything more in depth and they’re entirely in the hands of Mr L or the dreaded MME press release, accepting everything that’s given to them because they don’t possess any basic knowledge of aviation in order to respond.