Gloucestershire Airport: What Skyborne’s boss thinks of the decision to sell - and more

The first of our 'Ones to Watch' series: Lee Woodward of Skyborne talks growth, 'significant plans' for 2025, the decision to sell Gloucestershire Airport and what he'd love its future to be.

Dear reader,

Welcome to the third and final edition of The Raikes Journal this week, the digital magazine we email out to subscribers on Monday, Thursday and Friday. The first and last emails of the week being full editions, Monday’s always being free and Friday’s usually part paywalled to help pay for what we do.

Today finds us back at Gloucestershire Airport and talking again about its future with someone with a serious interest in the site, which was put up for sale last year by its current owners, Gloucester City Council and Cheltenham Borough Council.

We are talking about the lead story on today’s edition, an article that marks the launch of our new ‘Ones to Watch’ series, in which we turn our attention to Gloucestershire businesses we expect big things of in 2025.

And we are talking about Skyborne, the aviation training school with a major footprint both here and in the United States of America and which last year landed a lucrative contract with its latest major airline - this time…