but politicians do hold the power to grant planning applications. If DSA had been built 5 years earlier than it was as was the plan and had the manchester politicians not been so protectionist over MAN then it would be a different story today ...
Where this conspiracy come from? Was it not MAN that initially looked into developing DSA but found it to be unviable? Hence buying into HUY and Peel purchasing the site? I would think that any proposed new airport would need a public enquiry, however it seems that this far the wrong decision may have been made..
LBA is not ideally located, but the M62 corridor only generates a finite number of passengers, and MAN is well located to consolidate all long haul services to the benefit of the North. The rest will support their own regional airports based on regional demand, and Leeds has enough of that to suit infra European services..