3 OCTOBER 2011
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Goodbye Air Southwest. Destined to fail.
Plymouth City Airport was officially opened in July 1931 by the Prince of Wales, little more than a grass strip. The embryo Brymon Airways arrived in 1972, owned by Bill Bryce. Under Bryce’s energetic management the airport developed and introduced the first services to Heathrow in 1981 but he had overreached himself and by 1983 former BA Director Charles Stuart was installed as Chief Executive. Brymon pioneered London City Airport with a rejuvenated Plymouth as the prototype. In 2003 Sutton Harbour Plc acquired the airport and set up Air Southwest, selling out the airline in 2011 to Eastern Airways who subsequently closed the operation. www.airsouthwest.com www.plymouthairport.com
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