Runway extension
Should we be expecting some very positive news from the management at BHX?
By my reckoning, the total cost of the runway extension at £32.7m has now been covered by three separate budgets - £10m from Centro, £7m from the airport itself and now £15.7m from the government's Regional Growth Fund.
For the airport and Centro it may be possible to hold over their contribution into another year. But with the Regional Growth Fund, I doubt if that would be the case; it will be a case of USE IT OR LOSE IT. There will be plenty of other organisations up and down the country that would love to get their hands on that sort of pump-priming cash!
Now must be the time when this belated and much needed development for the airport is given a positive start date - like before the end of this year!