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The airport may have made a loss, but this is for a specific reason - carefully planned capital investment to enable the airport to grow substantially in the medium term. The loss has been planned for, and the airport has been profitable in preceding years, this isn’t a struggling business.

I’ve been telling anyone who’ll listen for the last 10 years that the last physical control tower in the UK has probably been built already - the future of ATC at airports is definitely cameras, for better or worse. Even those towers that aren’t replaced soon will become hybrid operations with...

It’s not a bad simulator, it’s pretty much the industry standard. It’s also quite a low spec version, and the very minimum that a unit proposing ‘greenfield’ validations would be required to have by the CAA. The e-waste comment related to the value of the DSA 1.0 sim if Peel tried to sell it to...

Cringe…

I wouldn’t read too much into what they’re doing regarding consultations. Like you say, if they get ahead of themselves they may have to revisit it, so there’s no point. I am curious about why a document was published and then removed, however - particularly one that the sponsor might find...

The only interesting bits are: •The impact upon general aviation stakeholders •The uncertainty underpinning forecasts of air transport movements. These are related, and suggest the CAA are unconvinced by the traffic forecasts - in particular raising questions as to whether the inconvenience to...

Airports continue to have drop-off fees, and inflation is a thing. Hold the front page!!

I would imagine it’s kept full with all the cars that are due to be collected soonest. At busy times of year maybe it’s full of cars that will be collected within a day or so, at less busy times it’ll be cars that will be collected within 2 or 3 days, but it should always be full.

Not really 'unwitting', you have to drive past a multitude of signs warning you about it before you get to the entry barrier, and there's still a free option. It costs a lot of money to run an airport. In the past, the airlines charged this money through their fares and passed it on to the...