Bad news on the reopening of the airport to larger commercial flights in this weeks Independent - it looks like the airport will not be used by 737s etc until next July 2017.
The link to the latest Independent 09/09/16 which includes articles on the Consulate Hotel closing because of the delays and more from Lord Ashcroft plus the payment to Comair for not flying !:-
Latest issues | The St Helena Independent | St Helena's 1st ever online newspaper
This whole fiasco becomes worse and worse as time goes by!
nb the articles mentioned are too big to copy and paste hence the link above.