AIRPORT after airport in the UK has been closed after being put up for sale to be bought by people who have promised to improve them and then have sold for large profit to developers who want the land to make massive profits.

The cycle of PR and spin is always the same. The first buyer runs it for a few years, while mysteriously campaigns against noise and “damage to the environment”grow louder and louder.

The new owners then hike up prices for airlines until they pull out. Next they claim the airport is unprofitable.

A few years after acquiring it, it is up for sale. No one wants an unprofitable airport, so who gets it? Developers!

The list of airports and airfields that have disappeared this way is very long. It is easy to research them, but beware of being sued for libel by those who have sold out to developers.

Southampton MUST demand that whoever buys it maintains it as a profitable airport for at least two decades and if they have reason to default it is returned to the city at zero cost.

No other deal will safeguard the city, its population, tourists, the cruise business and general business.

JAY D’ARCY, Address supplied.