MEFLYBE.....I live in a village just south of Roermond and work on the Maastricht/Aachen airport at the Eurocontrol Maastricht Upper Area Centre. Dusseldorf is 45 mins drive and Neiderhein about 75 mins , for V-Bird. Whilst the outbound V-Bird time is OK the return is 1115 from MAN and the first train from Scarborough arrives at 1000 IF it is on time!!! That is why I use BA , the times are good and the fares also - mostly. As I said Manchester is probably just as good as anything which is HUY's problem as we mostly agree!!!