infact the Yorkshire region creates more wealth than the NW region
Let's look at the Office for National Statistics
Gross value added (GVA) measures the value of economic output in a particular area. As such, it is one of the most important indicators of regional economic performance.
This is from the July 2014 report highlighting the 2011 and 2012 annual figures
In billions of pounds:
North West................127.9 -> 130.6 up 2.2%
Yorkshire and The Humber..092.5 -> 093.3 up 1.0%
Cumbria's contribution to the Northwest total is £7.5 billion so that means £123 billion for the remainder of the region
Okay. So point not proved for Yorkshire. Let's look at population instead from the 2011 census instead:
Yorkshire and the Humber..5,177,200
North West................7,052,000
Taking out Cumbria from the Northwest population makes the population 500,000 less so we're still talking 6,500,000
Oh. Smaller population base as well for Yorkshire.
It would now be moving more people than MAN is.
Aren't you assuming that in the parallel world where this LBA utopia exists, MAN would not be clawing back the passenger it's perceives as "lost"?
As is stands, there is room for 1 major airport in the North. It happens to be MAN. Any long-haul will predominantly feature at MAN. LPL and LBA may gain some in the fullness of time but European links are the way forward for both. However, if an airline running LPL and/or LBA finds that it impacts on MAN so that all services would not be profitable as operating to a single airport, then it's bye-bye the weaker performer - witness KLM at LPL.
As a general aside, perhaps you may wonder if Yorkshire passengers have been heading over to LPL seeing that the LPL growth in passenger numbers far outstrips what has happened at LBA.