In December 2001 the then airport managing director said: “Peel and Tinsley Park Ltd both believe that Finningley and Sheffield City Airport can now work together as they would serve different markets.”

This can be seen to have been nothing more than mere bluster as we now know the real intention was closure and the development of yet another business park.

The slow haemorrhaging of hard facts from the available evidence should be viewed as furthering the need for a full public inquiry concerning the development, running and probable destruction of a facility which is, even now, little more than a decade old.

Stewart Dalton, Westland Gardens, Sheffield 20

Like a bad cartoon

IT’S all starting to come out! A property development company sees an airport close to the centre of a big northern city, spots that it’s had a few bad months and then notices a clause in the lease which allows them to buy the whole thing for £1!

All they have to do is tell people it’s unviable and make them believe it, and it'll be theirs for a quid! It's like a Scooby-Doo story-line, except this time the bad guys got away with it.

Sheffield City Council could have stopped it but they didn't see what was going on. In fact it looks as though they actually helped the bad guys.

Robin Hood is OK if you want a flight to Alicante or Poland but there’s nothing for business users. That’s what Sheffield City Airport was all about: business and the jobs and wages that go with it. Sheffield City Council’s Labour members don't seem to have understood that.

Michael Wood