With nearly 100000 passengers using the Newquay -Gatwick route in 2012 and traffic having dropped for each of the last five years at the airport what is the likely future for the airport now that Easy jet have indicated they will not be taking on the route ? I recall using the Newquay -Heathrow service in its first week of operation back in the 1970s. It's a service which has assumed greater importance to Cornwall over the decades. The Southend route will hopefully just manage to keep the airport going for now but annual losses of three million pounds a year seem set to continue it seems to me.
Spend a few days or more in the southeast of England and it soon becomes all too apparent how far behind in economic terms Cornwall sadly is.
A bottomless pit or am I being too pessimistic ?