FlyBe are doing their bit though...
Don't even get me started on that....
So, the government (they don't deserve a capital G anymore) are pushing ahead with HS2 at a cost of £106bn (before it inevitably doubles or more) in order to connect the so-called Northern Powerhouse (which doesn't exist and is a made up term only) and reduce journey times by up to 1.5 hours. Note that the tracks do not extend past Manchester in the north - which isn't actually in the North at all and the term would upset the Starks at Castle Black deeply - and Leeds to the East, again it's not really in the east and the good folks of Newcastle, Sunderland etc would not like any accusations of Leeds being in the North East. Because it's not.
And yet a provincial airline which connects the truly far reaching areas of the UK - Inverness, Aberdeen, Belfast etc with Birmingham, East Midlands, Bournemouth, Exter, St. Ives, Bristol is not worth either a paltry £100m loan or being nationalised.
I don't know what the Fcuk is going on in Westminster but it's certainly not clever and seeks only to alienate the SE corner from the rest of the UK further.
That's right - the government has allowed something that costs 1060X (yes over a thousand times) the amount and might save you an hour on a train ride, yet hasn't helped the wider UK or those directly and indirectly dependent on the supply of air travel to have a chance.
And some people wonder why there is real vitriol for the Tory Treasury.