You must be forgetting that Nottinghamshire is a relatively large county!
But where are the populatrion centres?
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.
MAN and LBA are difficult because there are lots of flights going to where people want to go to, so lots of people. Small airports are great, but have a narrow range of flights so only appeal to a limited number of pax. The trick is how do you generate enough passengers to fill enough flights to make the airport sustainable?. The problem with DSA is it is a latecomer to the market, so how do you attract operators away from existing aiirports without paying them silly money?
Depending on whether your glass is half full or half empty, Peel have either tried and failed and are now crying enough, or where never really interested and were just playing the long game for the land (the area being so short of brownfield development sites...
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