There are two very interesting letters in yesterday's Northern Echo. One from a GS Stapleton hits the nail on the head. I quote from part of that letter.
"At the moment Mr Richmond (MME Director) is the only businessman I know who blames his customers for not wanting the very limited range of goods he has on offer, then to add insult to injury, has the gall to actually charge his customers for using his shop. If Tesco reduced the number of items it sells to less than a quarter of those of its competitors, then charged people to enter the shop they would be out of business within a week and no-one would be surprised."
Peel have one objective, close the airport and develop the land for a profit. They are, after all, property developers.
My sympathy lies with the dedicated and loyal staff who are being kicked in the teeth on a daily basis and the hundreds of thousands of local people who would use their airport, given a chance. There were over 900,000 of them just before Peel took over.