"In the first full financial year of operation under HIAL (2008/9) the airport's loss was £2.6 million. (Wiki Quote)" Passenger figures have more than halved so I guess losses will have grown. If it were £3 m spread over 22,000 passengers it equates to around £120 per passenger, each way. If the London City route were to stop, how would the airfield survive? What would the justification be to keep subsidising a lossmaking airfield without scheduled service flights?
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