1) There's no evidence they have any idea as to how to get the cost base right, certainly not with the taxpayer turning the taps on.
2) How do you plan to make money out of FR?
Btw all the non FR stuff is the same market Manston was dealing in, albeit with less success.
Cargolux freighters? Tick.
Storage? Tick.
Base training? Tick.
PIK3141 is there any reason a commercially viable business at GLA or EDI can't deal with Pilatus deliveries? Wick even deals with them. I used to agree on "strategic importance" but seriously, the slack can easily be taken up elsewhere, it's *all* about local jobs and politics now, just like Shannon oddly enough. There's is not a hope in Hell a left of centre group of public sector junkies can fix this. Happy to be proved wrong btw.....