"Why invest 45mil if you havn't got an airline lined up to fill your new terminal! Maybe Ryanair stiched them up..."
Stitched up maybe the wrong turn of phrase but remember that Ryanair were going to base four (or was it six?) aircraft at Bournemouth when the new terminals were completed. They also insisted that CAT 3 ILS was installed etc
You can hardly blame Bournemouth for the subsequent economic crash and Ryanair changing their mind. If this was the only deal they had on the table then were they supposed to turn it down in case somebody else came along?
Also, it seems that the voices now saying '£45m spent .. what a waste..not a penny returned' etc are the same ones who two or three years ago were saying 'why don't they invest in a terminal...no airline will come unless money is invested..."
Bournemouth will scrape through hard times and grow if the aviation business grows again, at least it is now largely ready to cope if numbers increase and airlines look to expand.