Originally Posted by
flybar
Some very poor Geography on here. West Yorkshire has a population of 2.5 million South Yorkshire 1.4 million.
Leeds is central in West Yorkshire, DSA is on the Eastern fringes of South Yorkshire with little population to the east.
People to the West of Leeds have Manchester as an alternative. They are not going to travel to DSA.
South Yorkshire tried an Airport on the fringes of Sheffield and it failed. The population of South Yorkshire will never support an airport whilst EMA and LBA are available.
I think you’re agreeing with me but yes this is the point I was making. Outside of South Yorkshire where can DSA attract passengers from?
West Yorkshire has LBA between Leeds and Bradford (the clue is in the name folks), Nottingham/Derby/Leicester combined is 1.5m approx and has EMA at its centre. Neither of those two markets are really threatened by DSA and that’s purely down to geography.