I kicked off this thread a few days ago and am obliged for the informed opinion expressed over successive days. It seems to me the setting up of the necessary infrastructure here in Cornwall is likely to be a huge stumbling block. Incomers tend to be vociferous in their objections to planning matters, the St. Erth proposals for a heliport being a case in point.
Trinity House operate out of Lands End at times but the airport owners are scarcely likely to permit a rotary operator in to cream off traffic on their St. Marys route which until last season had suffered a drop in passenger numbers for several successive years.
The local M.P. is having a fair amount to say on the subject of introducing the AW189, no doubt the fact that this is election year is pure coincidence ?
Contributors to Scilly today are even musing that the Merlin might be used on the service.