Transport links
Travel times to LBA from around our region are a mixed bag, but often not as bad as it seems, with most early flights you have to be at the airport that early that you miss the worst of the traffic, rush hour is another matter.
Jet2 have stopped a large amount of the leakage to Manchester, however at the same time they have seen off some of the IT operators, Leeds has lost a lot of traffic to the railways post Hatfield. bmi used to move a lot of people to/from LHR. one only has to look at list of flights that bmi have started and stopped to see that LBA is no MAN/BHX in terms of catchment
Longhaul charter could work from but runway performance remains an issue