One of my biggest disappointments, when I was learning to fly, was to find that Sheffield was not going to be open to singles. I have family in Sheffield and live in the south. I grumbled about it on usenet at the time and a cynical reply came through suggesting that Budge (the original developers, I believe) were building the airport just to get round the green field planning issues and wanted it to go bust so they could redevelop the resulting brown field site. It looks as though this was the correct prognosis. The single engine EFATO issue is totally bogus.