I find it really sad to read this kind of thing. I started at WPL when it was a grass strip, flying with the airport's owner Bob Jones (yep, even before your time WWW!). I worked with Pool for 4 years at weekends operating the A/G - please don't berate me for that, it was a good service then. In the end due to being shouted at by the boss in public (never was good with being shouted at!) we went our seperate ways. It's just celebrated its tenth birthday (did anyone notice?!) and has a surprisingly good safety record for such a busy GA field - obviously I know of the accidents but they are, sadly, to be expected.
We lose too many airfields in the UK as it is each month, let's try and be positive about the ones that we do have.
The current operator Pool (note! Not owner!) won't be there forever - but you have to admire them for having stuck it for the past ten years.
Total Aviation Person - maybe I worked with you, we're all a little f*cked off at the way we were treated - I think WWW is the only one who's left with a "thank you" but there's nothing to be gained from making pretty slanderous (well libellous, but this board is more spoken than print (if you see what I mean!)) statements about things which you might think you know, but don't really know 100%. Let's all just sit back, wait for Pool to go into "retirement" (forced or otherwise) and then enjoy what is one of the best (in terms of facilities) airfields that is available in the UK!