Hawarden is 40 minutes drive across the border to Manchester Airport or about the same to Liverpool Airport. Are border formalities
really so time-consuming that the northeast Wales catchment needs another airport for higher-seat-cost regional-aircraft services "to Scotland, Ireland, the Isle of Man and Cardiff" rather than using these airports (or indeed the train to Cardiff)? I note that a couple of the AMs quoted in that article are more in favour of improving North/South rail links rather than subsidising air services, and for the distance in question, that seems entirely reasonable.