refuse the then airport director £5000 to advertise a new route to Billund, yet at the same time expect him to turn the airport around. So many of our elected representatives have escaped from toy town and are best suited to chastising Noddy for driving too fast!
Well they should have been sent back to Billund (also a city airport if you count all that plastic) Toyland International to look after the driving school then!
Not sure one route to a remote Danish village with a seasonal tourist attraction is quite the best way to "turn round" an airport, but it does at least have plenty of models of other destinations to think about!
The FSB started up the petition, if you think they are in the wrong or naive then I suggest you contact them.
Well they are the FSB, not the FLB.
Is it in the Sheffield tax payers best interest for the airport to be sold for £1.00 for it to be redeveloped to great benefit of the developer?
It is a simple question of accounting. You are making the assumption that the site starts off having a positive present value. Airports as going concerns have huge operational costs, so even if the land does have value, better get rid of the thing for £1 than run a loss making airport for donkeys years - which I can assure you never happened at CVT!
The other challenge is that even if the land might be developed, the site might still need a huge clean up job, and any planning application could be subject to hefty Section 106 (planning gain) clauses.