Originally Posted by
davidjpowell
you are surely not new to the topic..
dsa has a longer runway and far less affect from the weather. I can get to the centre of Leeds more quickly from finningley than from from Leeds Bradford..
more seriously it’s not going to replace LBA, but has a decent catchment area plus cargo potential.
what is frankly unknown is whether the theory that Peel were not running the airport effectively holds water or not.
time will tell.
but ultimately the worst case is everyone pulls out sooner, running costs get cut off and Peel gets their development site back early with improved planning potential
No it doesn’t. They did offer amongst the cheapest landing fees in the country, EMA and LBA being similar, but they needed volume to make it pay. Low passenger uptake on certain routes made the airport undesirable to operate into for the few volume carriers available. TUI found some success, as did Wizz. Jet2 would probably do ok but they probably wouldn’t entertain the idea due proximity to LBA EMA. Cargo, it’s too close to EMA so purpose built facilities to handle the lucrative stuff wasn’t a viable investment.
Fail to see how the fundamental issues with DSA 1.0 would be circumvented under a different ownership model (often forgotten that the airport has already had two separate owners during its lifespan, one of which was a global airport operator and that conveniently never gets a mention!), assuming they intend to target passenger and freight flights. Apparently will be down to the appointed operator to develop the site, not sure how palatable that would be given they won’t own it. More than likely they’ll just run it for a couple of years whilst the subsidies dry up then leave it for someone else to manage.
Youre probably spot on with the last paragraph, it will be houses by 2036.