BA and Aer Arran, according to the Airport's minutes ,were performing well with good loadings.
The old loads instead of yields argument. The former make an airport look busy, the latter make it profitable.
BA Regional had good loadings ( except the service to LCY)
London tends to be quite an important market for a regional airport, especially one that itself is using the "City" branding. With LCY gone, whole business case already massively weakened. You can't just "except" such a core market!
para 4... There never was an enquiry...That's what Sheffielders have been asking for since 2005!
See above. Let's see the evidence this airport was a real going concern.
KLM claimed it was the best start-up service ever and a waiting list was applied for seats on certain flights....According to the Minutes KLM were proposing restarting services in the future.
A route needs long term viability, not just a good start up. Lots of routes have "waiting lists" (aka overbooking / bumping - we're not talking membership of an elite club here) some of the time. Statistically, it is just part of the normal distribution and does not, of itself, a profitable route make.
Minutes can say anything. Proposing? Thinking about it? Signed contract totally different.