Originally Posted by
davidjohnson6
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. Bradford Interchange (as an example, albeit admittedly in west Yorkshire rather than south Yorkshire) desperately needs money spent on it.
Principally this is a South Yorkshire issue, and West Yorkshire can but out, especially Bradford Interchange. The money is coming from the SYMCA region, and if it makes financial sense for the region (not forgetting as a region they can look for a wider benefit than a direct profit from the airport), then so be it.