Frankly and I do't like saying it but LPL-STR would probably work better from
the North West what with Vauxhall and a host of suppliers and the Chemical
companies just down the road in Runcorn many working with BASF in Stuttgart and other similar companies
Rutankrd
Father in law works for one of the Chemical companies in Runcorn and lives in Cheshire, as does everyone else with regular travel in their job description. They prefer to use MAN due to choice and price and its just as quick for them to get to MAN from home. Works the other way too where there are more connection opportunities into MAN from places like China and Brazil and the hotels they are put up in are in the Cheshire/Manchester area.
KLM actually sent his work a questionnaire of preferred airport back when the LPL flight was running, as a lot of them are card holders for KLM/AF, 94.8% replied Manchester. I wonder if the story could be similar at other Runcorn plants as not long after the LPL flight was pulled. Surely no coincidence?