So what is Sheffield does re-open as an airport, what are they going to do with it and has the population of Sheffield been approached to see if they'd be willing to subsidise it until it may, if ever, reach break-even point?
Reading of the previous operators to the airport, KLM might have made it initially pay, with their significant route network, utilising 50 seaters but KLM don't operate anything smaller than 80 seats these days and those don't have the performance to operate to/from such a STOLPort.
Sabena ... well they won't be coming back and SN/Brussels Airlines haven't got a route network of any significance to offer connections on.
British Airways? ... Yeah, right.
And Aer Arran have got problems of their own.
So who does that leave to operate to/from a re-opened Sheffield City Airport and on what routes?
Meanwhile ... just up country planning permission has been granted to build a Doncaster/Sheffield Airport rail station, why don't the "Sheffielders" petition for a PDQ train service from/to Finningley and the centre of Sheffield and then work on enticing the likes of KLM with their 80 seaters back to a Sheffield Airport (if in name only) that has a runway rather than half a runway and at least try to make one airport work rather than two that fail?
Or, might I ask, aren't trains as exciting as aeroplanes?