I can recall the days when Air Kilroe started the CWL/MAN/CWL 18 seat Jetstream31 service, obviously many of the pax internationally connecting in MAN, it became a really successful route, where is such a route today? ..... Oh, it's been diverted to some military airfield on a north Wales island, tax payer subsidised at £65 per seat, because some politician happens to live beside that island airfield and have business commitments to attend in Cardiff!
Would anyone care to argue that government corruption is not playing a part here?