Having too many airports is the worst possible answer to the problem
Finally a few words of sense - which is why the NE doesn't need yet another one. Is the penny finally starting to drop ??
it is the responsibility of politicians to provide it.
No it isn't, politicians never spend their own money, it's the taxpayers who would have to provide much of it. And I for one would never want to see my taxes wasted on such an unnecessary vanity project thank you very much. CF will eventually be turned over to housing, just like various other unnecessary and loss making airfields around the UK. Anything else the owner does in the meantime, like all luxury flights to the Costas (wtf ?!) is just biding time and window dressing. So get over it and move on...
I doubt that developing a regional airport that only a minority are calling for figures very highly for the government.
Exactly - in this case a minority of one, albeit a very noisy and self-opinionated one...