Finningley
Quote: "There are plenty of airports 30 minutes or so from their cities. I don't even think that Sheffield have a road sign to Sheffield from DSA. In my view Sheffield should be prioritising a motorway link and a rail link and renaming it with Sheffield's name first. Of course any traffic growth is difficult at this time but its a good airport and needs the market (Sheffield) to get behind it."
At present, Finningley is remarkably inaccessible. There probably needs to be a junction on the M18 at the A638 ("3A"?) near New Rossington to provide reasonable access to Sheffield. Either that, or a railway link to Doncaster (East Coast Main Line) and Sheffield-Midland, which have links to other towns in the area.
The questions are: (1) can that sort of expenditure be justified for the amount of traffic at DSA; (2) would that expenditure bring an adequate increase in traffic at DSA?
Suspect that the answer is "no" in both cases, but would love to be proven wrong.
As for renaming, how does "Sheffield-Finningley" sound?