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It will be just fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newquay_Airport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newquay_Airport "The airport handled 461,300 passengers in 20
by rexreed 4y ago
It will be just fine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newquay_Airport https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newquay_Airport
"The airport handled 461,300 passengers in 2017, a 24.2% increase over the previous year.[2] Newquay has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction. The Cornwall Air Ambulance is based at the airport. Since 2012, the airport has hosted the Aerohub enterprise zone.
The airport is also the base for Spaceport Cornwall / Virgin Orbit space satellite launches."
Not that much was actually invested or committed, relatively speaking:
"In June 2019, the UK government and Cornwall Council announced they were prepared to invest up to £20M into the airport to create the Spaceport Cornwall as a base for Virgin Orbit. On 5 November 2019, the UK Space Agency announced that it would provide £7.35M to establish Virgin Orbit operations at Spaceport Cornwall."
Not all of that was provided.