The airport economics look a little " challenging". The early shift see the London out a 6 then sit around till it comes back at 10, then nothing till the Ryanair Glasgow flight arrives at 3 pm and a flurry of activity to see off the Glasgow flight at 4 along with the London flight at 530, then sit around till 9 ish. 17 hours open all for a maximum of 50 passengers each way twice a day plus the Glasgow passengers . Its hard to see how this is worth the £3.8M subsidy plus the airport losses when there are 2 perfectly good airports just down the road ? If the airport was turned in to a sporting facility it would have the same number of jobs and there would be no loss of connectivity due to the close proximity to the other airports without the rate payers having to pay out millions. bb