...interestingly it is NOT just a few billboards, it is also targetted via email at CEOs / Senior Managers in an area of 25m people, North of Birmingham and West of Leeds.
There are more major cities within an hours drive of Manchesters catchment area than any other UK airport, located as it is, slapbang in the middle of the country, Manchester should by any "sensible measure" be their local international airport of choice.
Isn't this your 'wanting it both ways at once' logic rearing its head again. Spend months (years?) moaning about centralisation of air services in one place and how the region
s are missing out. In the next breath, region
s suddenly becomes region and you are making the case for centralising the services of half the country in Manchester. Do the politicians and business leaders of Brum', Leeds, Liverpool... really want this, or are they just as proud of their own regional identities are you are of Manchester's and would actually want to see their own airports develop - arguably at the expense of MAN. I'm not starting a willy waving war here - just pointing out the contradication.