Many of us down here in the windswept Duchy are very eager for Newquay to succeed and I thought mention of the good old days of Brymon very apt.
Why would I want to see Newquay fail? I would love to see three flights a day to Heathrow again and a million people a year flying in and out of the place but we have to be realistic. If I could use it more I would.
Back in the day, Brymon was running flights up to Heathrow. The small struggling airports need links to LHR. If point to point only was sufficient, any "London" airport would do, but where it clearly isn't, an amount of transfer traffic can make the difference, hence the need for links to LHR.
A classic example is Teesside, once the BD link to Heathrow was lost, the airport went into terminal decline.
Clearly none of this will happen if and until the Heathrow rwy situation is sorted and a sensible level of airport charges for small aircraft on thin routes is agreed.
Probably not going to happen in most of our lifetimes.