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Old 30th Oct 2012, 14:41
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cockney steve
 
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OK Sanus....now take out the rent for a new pitch (they're selling their own, so a grasping landlord will want ~8% return on HIS capital.....then there's the local council screwing the place for Rates and other services....Oh, and as the presentoperator is so skint they don't have a "xitty" to pay for replacements for their end-of-life machines.....they obviously were short on the revenue-stream.

New heliport +new heli(s) = higher costs- = same throughput of pax/freight pay more per trip, OR they increase their load-factor sufficiently to make the op. self-funding.

Why do people think there's a magic money-tree which produces "Grants and Subsidies"....Commercial operation, should work on a self-funded basis.
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