LTNman - you've answered the question 'how do you make more money from a disused airport than from a loss making one?'
Unfortunately that wasn't the question that I asked.
There seems to be a view on this thread that Peel have deliberately run down MME so that it becomes unviable as an airport so that they could then exploit the land once the airport is closed - nobody has explained why they would do this and how they would make more money than developing the airport and the associated surplus land. It's the airport that gives them a USP over other development sites in the area.
Last edited by SWBKCB; 9th Feb 2012 at 19:56.