Fair comment. I am not privvy to Staverton's future plans, maybe they see their future more with business aviation, maintenance and the like. However they must be confident they have a viable future to expend money on the runway safety work. The reduced runway available if the safety work was not carried out would presumably have threatened both business-jet operations and the small-scale scheduled services operated by Manx2.
There is another airfield in the Midlands, recently revived, saying that it wants to see passenger flights back, Coventry, but that has gone rather quiet.
Last edited by EGCA; 31st Jan 2012 at 13:04.