“Aaaahh...

Peaceful and cleaner skies.

Listen to the birds.

Love it while it lasts.

May it last longer too.

Congratulations, Andrew Mitchell, on your very first 'green' and 'sustainable' action/inaction. What next?

Best cut everyone's current and future losses, shut it down completely and replace all that 9,000 feet of newly laid asphalt with carbon offsetting trees and a little runway for the Scilly Isles service and two helicopter pads for the Air Ambulance and Coastguard choppers.

Now , that's coming closer to a more truly SUSTAINABLE operation.”

“This highlights all that is wrong with having a local councillor with no specific professional background running a project which requires one. Why has this not been subcontracted to a team with experience in the field? Instead we have someone who hasn¿t got a clue about what has gone wrong, an airport which has now been shut and the credential of Cornwall as a business place in tatters. An airport is not a flimsy welfare venture but a competitive business: start running it as such.”

“Andrew Mitchell, CCC's economy portfolio holder with responsibility for the airport, said: "I'm hugely disappointed. We have not heard the reasons why the RAF can't stay, but there is obviously some huge issue over staying.

Ummm.. were you not aware that you signed a contract saying you were taking over the airport on December 1st?

Nice thought about the helpline number.. Just a shame you now expect the public to pay to contact you.. Freephone number maybe? Don't be silly, CCC don't do anything for free.”

“Does anyone know if CCC are providing coaches free of charge to transport Ryan airline passengers to Bristol? I am supposed to fly out this thursday but how now idea how I get to Bristol??”

“Why is anyone surprised at this latest example of gross mismanagement? Newquay airport has been seen as the Mickey Mouse of UK provincial airports ever since it's control was taken over by CCC. As a regular user with a lifetime association with air travel I have made frequent representations re grossly inefficient check in staff, poor security and laughable taxi facilities, but to no avail and usually without any response.
All this and the £5 fee for undergoing the pitiful service when departing. If it were not such a serious issue it would be laughable, I could write a book on the subject.”

“I honestly don't see how we can expect the rest of the country , and the world for that matter, to take us seriously as an up and coming region which purports to have all modern,amenities when there are a troup of Monkeys running the show from County Hall in Truro who will risk closing one of our major connections with the rest of the world due to their own in-competence. The next thing they wil be putting up Barricades on the A 30 , saying no Entry into Cornwall due to ma shortage of Pasties . What idiots , who employs them , WE DO.”

“As a regular flier from Newquay I now have one holiday and one business trip in December wrecked for me by CCC! Looks like a choice of an expensive seat on the crop duster or a 6 hour drive each way.

Ryan Air must be thanking the Cornish Piskies at CCC to be given such a wind fall during low season, enabling them to reduce their running costs and even claim compensation.

Thanks CCC I WILL REMEMBER at the time of the next elections.”

“i am not cornish but my family moved to cornwall many years ago. in my eyes cornwall is the jewel in englands crown, beautiful, mysterious, and home! my sister in law is currently on holiday and as yet does not know about this , her return journey is dec the 6th . like many she will be dismaid to find that her and son will have to find alternate arrangements!!again!! as the flight to stanstead was cancelled because ryanair knew before hand what was about to happen . fortunatly we (her family ) will make sure she does not have to worry about finding alternate ways to get back to bugle. i love cornwall with a passion like many that have found it and made it their home, and to be away and watch with absolute horror the way the council handles a project that could and should benifit all walks of life in cornwall , is at the very minimum an act of betrayal, in another time the very least sentence the council should get is hanging!! i have every simpathy for anyone affected by this, but not the council. i wonder just how much they have recieved from the 5 pound (use the airport tax) and car park fee's . money should not be a factor in any delay of building work , just mismanaged use of it . i would say more but would find myself much angrier than i am already and would swear to much. to everybody who loves cornwall please do not let this injustise on cornwall go unpunished .”

“This is what happens when you let the public sector run things. The private sector would never have screwed it up because they wouldn't have wanted to lose three weeks' profits. It makes no difference to CCC.”

“Typical public sector, errors happen but if I demonstrated such incompetence I would lose my job (although I would have the honour to resign first).
Anyone got any views on legal liability for extra costs, emotional upset caused by the council on grounds of negligence, I woudl have thought that a duty of care as owed, it was breeched and that caused a loss to people, airlines, etc under law of tort?”