The bulk of the people slating the place have little or no understanding of how airports work and/or just like to criticise for criticising's sake, those same people want me to defend the place so they can achieve a thrill trying to pick apart my defence, so after this post I think I'll join Beafer by giving up on pprune, bar the odd post.
Airport development and land development go hand-in-hand these days, Peel are port operators as much as they are land developers and have done nothing different to what most other UK airports have done, capitalised on land adjacent to an airport to bring in extra income.
I do have one question for Beafer however, if Peel are not a company you wish to be associated with, does that mean you'll be leaving the flying school? Because if not, like it or not, you still have an association of sorts? Just curious.