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Old 27th Oct 2011, 19:31
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skyman771
 
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If this airport falls, its because of peel, no-one else.
To get this back on track in June 2010 VAS acquired a controlling interest (65%) in Peels Holdings subsidiary "Peel Airports
Prior to the acquisition, then Peel's fundamental problem at DTV was to allow the "Lunatics to continue running the asylum". All this continual banter as their land development interests at DTV is an aside as well as being purely conjecture.
I've read so much spin in respect of this place including the "5 years bad luck!" quote. I'd prefer to replace the words "bad luck" with "incompetence".
VAS are now left with an almost impossible task of restoring DTV back to a position where it served 1 million plus pax.
At this time then the future of DTV as a commercial airport hangs on the continued support KLM.
Seems to me that any audit carried out on the current viability of DTV would have to consider "going concern" very carefully.
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