Whenever I look at this thread - I'm always reminded of a bunch of die-hard supporters of the local football team who will turn out for an evening kick-off on a cold wet night in November, knowing full well the team they support is rubbish and will always stay in some backwater division, but refusing to ever contemplate watching the Premier League club whose players have talent a few miles away and who sometime get to play in the Champion's League
Local Govt owns 25% of MME. If MME makes a loss, that means the council has less money to spend on local services. Yes, some of the money you pay in council tax, indirectly, is used to subsidise MME.
How much more taxpayer money needs to be spent so people can save under an hour in travel time when they go on an annual holiday to a beach in Spain ?
Going 35 miles by train or road to use runway 07/25 really isn't that bad