If they were considering building a brand new airport for London why not start the ball rolling at least for an airport in Yorkshire that can satisfy the regions potential?
Good parallel.
And, give or take a couple of zeroes on the end of the numbers, the reasons why a Thames Estuary airport isn't going to happen are the same as the reasons why CF International won't either.
If a past mistake has been made why keep on adding to that mistake? There could be another 100 years of aviation in Yorkshire
Another good parallel.
With 70 years of hindsight, you wouldn't have built Heathrow where it is, with its east-west runways pointing directly towards London. But it's there, and that's one of the givens in the current airport expansion debate.
Clean sheets of paper are pretty rare nowadays.