And there's a limit to how many breakers yards are needed. Redundant municipal airports on brown field sites must be prime developmental land, and councils looking to cut the cost of their local airport will surely be attracted by development potential.
V12 - how many of the airports mentioned are council owned? PIK and CWL are owned by national governments, NCL and MAN (and BOH/EMA) have significant local government holdings but we aren't really talking about them - can only think of NQY, of any others?
Local councils do like airports though - but they aren't interested in buckets and spade flights but a London link or failing that connection to the outside world through the likes of AMS - any airport providing this should be able to get the local politicos on side
Scrapping/storage certainly seems to be the new 'Ryanair' i.e. the saviour of local airports. How many is it now - Kemble, Lasham, Bruntingthorpe, Norwich, Teesside, St. Athan with Newquay and Prestwick trying to get in on the act (anything happening at Llanbedr?).