1. The campaign is being led by the Federation of Small Business.
2. Rolls Royce and Boeing have engineering / research centres at the end of the runway.
3. The Airport is in an Enterprise Zone.
4. It's located within the city boundary, adjacent to the main manufacturing and commerce zone, and 6/7 minutes drive to the city centre down a fast dual carriageway.
5. HS2 will have a station a mile up the road.
6. Finningley is in Doncaster and an hour's drive away with all the aggravation of a large facility. Netherthorpe is 550m of grass. Sandtoft and Gamston are in other counties.
Lets have a look at some of these poinsT;
1. The FSB largely represent just that - small businesses. Are big employers like Outokumpu just down the road gagging to use SZD?
2. As above - are Boeing and RR gagging for the airport to be reopened?
3. An enterprise zone - a political device used by councillors and national politicians to make it look as though they're "doing something" in a deprived area - a bit like the Freeports of the 1980s.
4. Like heck it is - especially when Meadowhell is in full swing!
5. When exactly is HS2 likely to reach Sheffield?
Just what the UK doesn't need right now, another airport - there's plenty already. A fact proven by the failure of SZD as a commercial airport years ago.