Agree the catchment area was adequate to possibly sustain the commercial market for an airport of this size , however due to the financial burdens inherited and allowed to continue , total mismanagement , something had to give - it couldn't continue.
The entire infrastructure for moderate scale /low cost jet flights has now gone , no workable Terminal , Arrivals "tent" gone , no ramp handling equipment , no staff , no radar and reduced Fire Cat. The Terminal will without doubt operate as something totally non aviation related in the future
. The days of mass commercial travel have gone...
Thankful that some form of aviation continues in the form of offshore helicopter traffic , business aircraft and general aviation , at least we still have something to retain the connection with Blackpool and aviation.
It plugs the gap between Blackpool and Lytham St Anne's becoming a huge low cost housing estate that isn't actually needed or wanted .
