On that basis if there is a demand to trade with "The UK" it has to go somewhere, if Manchester benefits so be it.
Yup and as has been explained to you on multiple occasions, it will connect overseas shafting British jobs (in London and the posh South East BOOOOOOOOOO!). STN was a huge mistake because the market did not want it, the BAA was told that, the market wanted LHR. Indeed the market continues to choose LHR over LGW for hub connections almost every time. You keep assuming that LHR being full means poeple wanting to come to the UK will fly locally and direct. Some will, however many more will use overseas hubs like Dubai, Doha (lovely country, they hate gays and non muslims, huge supporters of ISIS but oooosh they fly to MAN twice daily on a state sponsored airline, feel the love for the shiny Boeings / Airbuses), Abu Dhabi, or in Europe, better frequencies and connections are available overseas at FRA/CDG/AMS/ZRH/HEL etc.
MAN's long haul portfolio is bouncing back but it's not growing dramatically in the way you seem to think it ought to as LHR remains constrained and has done so since intial closure to new entrants in 1977.
Lets be clear my interest is Manchester, The NWest and The North in that order,
And as is blatantly clear, the rest of the country can go and hang so long as your local area is blessed? And you wonder why a national integrated transport policy is so hard to manage?
if we don't do this or don't do that they will go somewhere in Europe.
They will come to MAN, but via a European gateway, exporting the jobs to Europe and benefiting Lufthansa, Swiss, Air France / KLM etc. Is that so hard to understand?
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