I agree that DSA as a standalone airport has a longer runway, better long-distance road connections and is less prone to bad weather. However, why did Easyjet who are normally a highly competent LCC fail at DSA ? Why did Jet2 stick with LBA ? DSA was running as a commercial airport for 17 years, yet it never managed to hit 1.5 million pax per year.
Yorkshire's big great airport sees about the same pax numbers as London's 5th busiest airport. I'm struggling to understand why Yorkshire needs to spend a very large public subsidy on a 2nd airport when it could spend the same money on other infrastructure projects. Putting the money towards (part of) the cost of upgrading the Hull-Sheffield-Manchester rail line could really have an impact on the region's economy.
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