Letter to the Editor of the Cornish Guardian from Roger Creagh-Osborne

Congratulations to Kevin Lavery on seeing the light over Newquay Airport

Dear Sir

Could I offer my congratulations to the Chief Executive of Cornwall Council, Kevin Lavery on his recent 'Road to Damascus' moment with regard to the prospects for Newquay Airport.  To remind readers, he said in a briefing "The original business plan was over-confident. The airport will always remain a small regional facility and on its own will probably never make a profit."

Quite a climb down from the hyperbole of the flawed draft masterplan published little over a year ago. As predicted by Bob Egerton and the Groundswell report on the airport at that time,  passenger numbers have declined by over 20% and there is no evidence of any net economic benefit to Cornwall; rather the reverse.

Hopefully Mr Lavery is now getting ready for the next step of his volte face and preparing to admit that the millions of pounds of our money that continues to be poured into the airport has been entirely wasted, and he will announce that council taxpayer support for the airport will now be withdrawn.

Roger Creagh-Osborne