Tom Rippeth: Scrap 'dead duck' air-link that no-one wants to operate

4.00.17pm GMT Fri 5th Mar 2010

Commenting on the news that the troubled North-South Air link has suffered a further set back after no operators made suitable bids for the latest tender, Welsh Lib Dem candidate for Wrexham Dr Tom Rippeth said:

"It is astounding that even at the shockingly high level of public subsidy, Ieuan Wyn Jones is offering operators, not one has come forward with a suitable bid.

"We have always said this subsidy was unsustainable in environmental and public expense terms, this news shows it is unsustainable in operational terms as well.

"This is a service for the few not the many and it will be scandalous if the Labour-Plaid Government re-act to this by just upping the level of subsidy offered. Ieuan should scrap it for good before he wastes any more public money on a dead duck instead of spending it on sustainable transport for all."