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Yeo Valley. Sorry, maybe I should have been more clear. I'm just reflecting on how dreams can fade so quickly. Or how detached from reality management can sometimes be. Take your pick. Either way, a very sad day when Manston closed.
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Manston movements
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How does that work if the airport has been closed?
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Hopes have been raised that Manston Airport may reopen with a potential buyer announcing continued interest.
BBC News - Manston Airport reopening hopes raised
BBC News - Manston Airport reopening hopes raised
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Not dead yet
Old airports never die .......................
Flying school takes Manston Airport owners to court - News - Your Thanet
.......... it looks as though this might run for some time yet!
Flying school takes Manston Airport owners to court - News - Your Thanet
.......... it looks as though this might run for some time yet!
GWW
I fail to see on what grounds the flying school expect to win.
It's Ann Gloag's ball (the airfield) and if she wants to stop someone playing with it then that is her, as the owner's, prerogative!
I fail to see on what grounds the flying school expect to win.
It's Ann Gloag's ball (the airfield) and if she wants to stop someone playing with it then that is her, as the owner's, prerogative!
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TG still had a 50 year lease remaining when they were pushed out .. they received no financial compensation, they were just kicked out.
As I understand it, for now they want to be able to use the runway, that is all.
As I understand it, for now they want to be able to use the runway, that is all.
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It's Ann Gloag's ball (the airfield) and if she wants to stop someone playing with it then that is her, as the owner's, prerogative!
But she has done neither, people on the ground at Manston should know if she made any realistic attempt to increase business and revenue however, by all accounts, she was offered five million for her one pound outlay and she refused to sell that would in turn have allowed the airport to stay open.
Sometimes the law isn't always "black & white", sometimes "common sense" becomes applied and in this scenario I would suggest that a "deception" has taken place, it was Manston airport she bought for a pound, not X number of acres of real estate, and nothing has changed, she knew it was losing money when she bought it and that's why she got it for just one pound.
So her deception, her greed, has put other honest businesses and individuals out of business and/or out of work and I'm not sure a court will look too favorably upon her actions.
Whatever I may think personally about the morality of Ann Gloag’s behavior, I can’t see that she’s done anything illegal. I can’t see that she’s broken any laws, defrauded anybody or stolen money. She may indeed have acquired Manston as an Airport; that doesn’t place her under any legal or moral obligation to continue to operate it as such, or to sell it to someone else who will. As someone else observed, it’s her train set now.
You talk about “deception”. I’m not sure about the legal definition of deception, but I suspect you would have to prove that there was some sort of criminal conspiracy taking place. Even if it were illegal, as the owner of a business, to say you’re going to do one thing and subsequently do another (which I very much doubt), you’d have to prove that Ann Gloag only purchased Manston with the intent of closing it down. How would you do that?
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If it was such a great place to run an airport why weren't there more bidders?
it's been touted around for years after all
The answer is simple - there is no believable business case for a commercial airport here and quite a lot of cash has been expended to prove the point
Ms Gloag (who I think is a very sharp businesswoman) saw the opportunity and moved in - there was obviously no cause in the agreement to force her to keep an airport and she wouldn't have signed if there was - AND NOR WOULD ANYONE ELSE
it's been touted around for years after all
The answer is simple - there is no believable business case for a commercial airport here and quite a lot of cash has been expended to prove the point
Ms Gloag (who I think is a very sharp businesswoman) saw the opportunity and moved in - there was obviously no cause in the agreement to force her to keep an airport and she wouldn't have signed if there was - AND NOR WOULD ANYONE ELSE