Interesting.
Tax payers money subsidising a rail or bus system is one thing. Using it to subsidise an air link when there are alternatives is quite different IMHO.
And subsidising a loss making private operation that is paying out dividends to shareholders! We hear how privatisation is meant to be the saviour of us all, no evidence of that here.
Linking Exeter or Edinburgh by air isn’t the same as linking an island. If the well off with holiday homes want to spend less time on the road, and more in their 2nd homes, should tax payers aid them?
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As Windrush and Daleman noted, this firm has been in trouble through poor management for ages. Apparently on 80% of their routes they were the only carrier…
A monopoly, and it wasn’t paying!