Originally Posted by
Andy_S
Indeed. One which the advocate(s) of a new or expanded Leeds Airport have continually ignored.
Airports aren't a fundamental human right or a reward for good behaviour. The sky won't fall in if there isn't an international airport within an hours drive.
They are businesses, and like any other business they have to operate in the real world with it's financial and competitive constraints. And sometimes, like any other business, through lack of planning, poor decision making or simple bad lack they hand their competitors a competitive advantage which can't be regained. That's the way it is. You can't turn back the clock so get used to it.
No but you can buy a new clock and set it going. That is what this thread is about. Politics will stop cf not the business case. It was politics that put an airport in Doncaster that has no year round flights to anywhere in Britain.