O/T Airport closure

[KerrAvon]

Public interest being the loss of 800+ jobs within the airport and who knows how many subsidiary losses of employment that serve the airport.
Moreover, the loss of customer foot flow and serving the immediate area.

There is the opportunity to attempt to make a profit. Talk of Peel charging over inflated landing fees/ use of facilities to airlines is now starting to leak out. Maybe this was the way Peel wanted it to go in order to sell at a vast profit?

On the back of all this and ironically, just before Peel announced the impending sale, the Government announced it had backed a brand new multi million pound project to run a line direct from Doncaster train station to the airport in order to support and encourage the airports survival, by lessening travel time for those wishing to use the rail network instead of the road network.

The public interest extends beyond the people who rely upon the airport for work. It is the wider Doncaster Council Tax payer who might find themselves wearing a financial albatross around their necks, particularly as discretionary spending is squeezed over the coming years.

As for landing charges, the question you have to ask is whether Peel had to charge them to try to turn a profit from the meagre traffic that the airport attracted. It's a chicken and egg thing, but I very much doubt that Peel were trying to sabotage their own investment.

And Brexit.

[Brin]

The public interest extends beyond the people who rely upon the airport for work. It is the wider Doncaster Council Tax payer who might find themselves wearing a financial albatross around their necks, particularly as discretionary spending is squeezed over the coming years.

As for landing charges, the question you have to ask is whether Peel had to charge them to try to turn a profit from the meagre traffic that the airport attracted. It's a chicken and egg thing, but I very much doubt that Peel were trying to sabotage their own investment.

And Brexit.

Why not sabotage everything? Drive prices up, force wizzair out leaving only TUI. Not enough income to justify keeping it open, end result, sell to a raft on people who just can’t wait to buy the land.

They won’t be the first or last to do this albeit they have a record for this.