That’s quite true but isn’t the problem that passengers can utilise an efficient and cost effective taxi service from East Kent to Gatwick, where they can find a myriad of low cost carriers flying directly from there to their chosen destination and all for much less than the return KLM to Amsterdam and onward connection?

As a local I strongly want Manston to succeed but unless and until it becomes a satellite to Heathrow with improved rail links to London, I really don’t see that it has enough to offer to make it viable. And how much more freight is carried now compared to 5 years ago? And what happened to the highly publicised equine facility? That’s why I am intrigued to read what the Gloags have to say, when they announce their plans for its future.