The planning application assumes there would be 3,650 passenger and 1,560 cargo flights each year by 2025 and an average of 276 heavy-lorry movements each day.
and the last bit of the sentance says it all.
Quite clearly, once Stobart get the requisite planning permission, the can continue to develop the vehicle transport operation at the airport and could easily have the 270 or so lorry movements every day within a month from now.
The airport side will remain undeveloped as, within the planning permission, they have just under 15 years to arrange for just one scheduled passenger flight per day to operate from the airport, in fact, they are not legally obliged to do that.
I can't belive that anyone who is supporting the development of the airport hasn't seen through all of this.
But it doesn't matter as if Stobart don't get what they want, they'll relocate to Cheshire and sell Carlisle Airport at the best price they can get, I'd wager that it almost certainly won't be to anyone with any aviation interests and there's nothing the local authority will be able to do about it.
Either way, Stobart speak with forked tongues with regard to the airport development.
It won't happen.
