Maxred wrote:
unless you get rent free/rates free
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Where is your ambition.
UK govt PAYS some rail companies to run the trains for them.
So I would expect anyone running Oban and its associated air services to be paid too.
The "tender" will be a competition to see who needs the least subsidy.
Now, if the airfield was to be sold for 1p to somebody, then they might just take it on with the hope of using some of the ground for what NS and others have proposed - restaurant/offices/industrial units/hotel etc - to subsidise the air side.
That's my 1p worth!