windsock,
are you always so rude and childish?
Even if we take the last known loss of £2.2 million, that is still costing the taxpayer about £6,000 per day just to keep the lights on. This is before any investment is made in the infrastructure.
The airport was taken into public ownership on the 22nd of November (?), so that means even if nothing has been spent on investment, up until today it has cost the taxpayer a million quid. If we take the last reported loss of £9.77m, then the daily running cost is nearly £27,000 per day. So that means up until today the taxpayers have provided a subsidy of £4,443,342.47.
This is all academic and based on simple arithmetic and a business as complex as an airport would need some in-depth analysis to work out the true scale of daily loss.