LBA also involves 30 minutes down a minor road to get to it from the A1. Give me RHADS any day.
That has nothing to do with it at all wether it gets long haul or not. LBA is by far in the best position if the demand from this region was ever created. As it stands i believe that despite the 200,000 pax leaving Yorkshire to fly to NYC, they are not high yielding business travellers and so MAN for some time will have this sewn up as the north west provides much of these high paying regulars.