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Old 29th Sep 2014, 20:02
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Ok, time for a fact input. All these project airports, Manston, Blackpool, East Midlands, Liverpool, Leeds, Doncaster, etc etc, were bought and developed on the Lo Co model, and the ultra cheap, all you can buy, all you can eat, holiday of the packaged kind.

Now, with ever deepening austerity cuts, the fact that the assets are technically worthless, and a Tory government, that is widening these cuts, then some't has to give. And guess what, it is the holiday.

Sooner or later, all of these business models will go. Why? They are unsustainable, particularly with a bust bank as your funder, please take your pick of a choice of many. The private operators simply cannot go on losing money.

It is, INTF 90, not a Scottish problem. My only current regret, is that 2 million, sic allegedly, bought into the status quo deal. Time will tell what an inglorious error that was. War, what war? Vow, what vow?
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