antilla wrote
Poor chap sounds a bit confused! "£2 per plane that takes off" would yield just over £100,000 per year, and you don't get a lot of infrastructure for a sum like that.
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Think you need a basic maths lesson. Try £10 million per year or £100 million over the next 10 years
Come to think of it - why should Luton Borough Council pay for developments at an airport that they have franchised out to another body? Or does Tim Jeans think that LBC could do a better job of developing the airport by running it directly from the Town Hall.
Many people have made their views clear on that issue in previous posts, calling the Councillors idiots, clowns, etc. That always did sound rather harsh, but the task of running an airport is probably beyond the skills of the average local politician.
Your missing the point. Due to the franchise agreement heavy investment can only take place in the initial years, which will allow a sufficient payback period before the franchise holder has the walk away. We have already past that point so say goodbye to any major investment. The bad news is that there is still another 20 years to run on the current agreement.