My son is heading up to Gatwick from Newquay this week on the Flybe service, travelling on business. He would normally go by train but of course that's not an option for the next few weeks at least. Tourism numbers maybe low at this time of the year but there is still a need to get in to and out of Cornwall on business .
I spent some hours a few weeks ago delayed at Newquay awaiting a flight to St.Mary's on a very stormy day. In this period just one Flybe flight departed yet there seemed to be a never ending stream of staff wandering around all looking very public sector with their bits of paper they mostly seemed to be carting around. As a Cornish community charge payer I tried hard to avoid thinking of the three and a half million pounds or so loss the airport is running up each year and wondered how this look if a private sector operator took over - but who would want it .
We need the airport but on an ongoing basis - can we afford it...........