Interesting background from the liquidator.
According to the CAA, in 2008 Blackpool had 424,000 passengers, last year 235,000.
So if the liquidator is to be believed, it never so much as broke even. Which asks just one or two questions of Balfour Beatty's management of the place over quite a long period.
As for Norwich - the airport 'development' fee has according to their own site been used to pay for;
Over the last four years the ADF has helped investment in the following projects at the airport:
- Increase in holiday destinations (both summer and winter) and retention of scheduled services
- Terminal building extension and refurbishment
- Flight information system
- Main apron upgrades for aircraft parking in front of the terminal
- State of the art radar equipment
- Fire training and emergency response facilities and equipment
So in other words the basic running of the facility