RECENTLY, a couple returning home through Liverpool airport, told me that Blackpool's was busier.

I believe them, but much of the business at Blackpool is the choppers servicing the oil rigs. That is the reason why Squires Gate is not getting more normal flights -- they are too difficult to arrange under the circumstances

As for the recent cuts in employment locally, once more Samlesbury gets it in the back. The staff there has been cut regularly over the years from when I worked for English Electric on the P1 Lightning fighter.

All these things added together should lead to local MPs forming a group, as others have elsewhere, to increase employment by getting some work into Samlesbury -- namely scheduled service flights by the same companies flying from Manchester which has loads of work.

G PADGETT, Bridgewater Court, Bath Street, Blackburn.