Four months after agreeing to negotiate a new lease with the tenant of Swansea Airport, council chiefs now plan to end it - and may have to go to court to do so. Swansea Council cabinet members met behind closed doors last week to consider a 77-page report on the management of the airport, which is owned by the council, and decided that action was needed.
There has been growing dissatisfaction among users of the airport in recent months about the way they claimed it was being run and maintained. The tenant, Swansea Airport Ltd, claimed improvements were being made and also announced plans on social media for passenger flights between Swansea and Exeter.
In January the cabinet agreed to negotiate a new lease with Swansea Airport Ltd. Three weeks later the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) provisionally suspended the airport's licence due to a "systemic failure of safety management". The council said it would reconsider its position, and has now done just that in the closed cabinet meeting.
