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Dear Readers, 

We hope you had a great weekend.

We left you early last week, taking a much needed long weekend, but left you with the story of British Airways revealing it is about to invest £21 million in training new airline pilots and how a significant part of that could come the way of Skyborne, headquartered at Gloucestershire Airport. 

It’s great news for the flight training school, which has invested significantly in the county, but the story led us to other conversations about the airport’s future. Which means we’re working on a follow-up.

The airport is a topic that refuses to go away for the two local authorities that own it – Gloucester City Council and Cheltenham Borough Council. 

One of the first big questions put by opposition councillors to the newly appointed leader of the city council, Councillor Jeremy Hilton was whether he was going to sell the operation – which is currently run by Gloucestershire Airport Ltd, an arms-length company designed to keep it out of the mire of…