Oshkosh,
Are you pulling everyone's leg again?
Where's Blairgowrie in the list of largest UK towns & cities.
Carlisle must be just outside the top 30 - see
http://www.mongabay.com/igapo/UK.htm for a list (not too favourable to Manchester though).
Virtually all of the cities on this list are well within 50 miles of an airport which offers scheduled passenger flights. Even those that aren't (Peterbrough? Swindon?) are well within reach of London by fast train services. Carlisle would also be a good starting point to explore Hadrian's Wall. As this is all leisure oriented, the £200 return fare just seems way out of line with the current market. But if FR have made Blackpool work twice per day, could they make Carlisle work too, or is the runway not long enough?