North-East Wales (Hawarden) has something that North-West Wales (RAF Valley) doesn't have ... Some decent roads for people to drive their cars along!
Hawarden might be located in Wales but branding it, as it has been, as "Chester Airport" gives it an English airport identity, it's catchment area, in the main, will be from the English side of the border thus should the Welsh goverment be throwing more good money away on regional airfields that are never really likely to break in to profit and, in this instance, mainly for the benefit of people from England?
LPL still has stacks of availability to take any overflow from MAN, likewise so does BHX, CVT, EMA, HUY, LBA, BLK and any others I may have forgotten, why the hell does midland/north UK need yet another airport?