Reality check....three points:
First:-If Finningley is not busy with IT traffic, maybe, just maybe, there isn't any great demand from (Sheffield) local tour companies to fly more of their customers from Finningley, presumably they are happy to bus them to--I assume--East Midlands, which at present probably is about the same journey time from Sheffield via the M1, and may allow for a pick-up of pax in Chesterfield along the way. Is there a current campaign in Sheffield for more IT destinations from Finningley?
Second:-Further, is there any current campaign in Sheffield for scheduled destinations from Finningley? Business people in South Yorkshire presumably do fly to Europe on business, how do they cope at present? Are they shouting from the rooftops for scheduled flights from Finningley?
Third:- Finally, and reverting to Sheffield City, does anyone local to the Steel City detect any great outcry at the lack of a GA facility more local than say Sandtoft, Netherthorpe, Retford/Gamston?
I respectfully suspect that the answer to all three points is : "NO".
EGCA