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sunday8pm
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.
You must be forgetting that Nottinghamshire is a relatively large county! I live in it and we are 20 minutes from DSA but 1 hour from EMA. The Derbyshire border is literally only a mile away, too.
We would always use Doncaster by preference (and have done so on a number of occasions) but if the flights don’t exist, you can’t take them.
Manchester is a pain to get to and LBA is also difficult and when we have used it, not a happy experience.