Hard to believe some of the daft routes there used to be! Who in their right mind would waste all that time getting to and from airports to save such a short centre-to-centre train journey?
In the days when I flew for (I shudder to confess) PigLine (aka Suckling "Airways") I was ever in awe at the prices people would pay for Cambridge - Manchester or Waterford (where??) £250+ in 1993! And all in blissful ignorance of the appalling cowboy nature of the outfit they were trusting their lives to!