QUOTE=Fairdealfrank;8903192]You can't "replace" Yeadon and Finningley, the owners probably would not agree. So Yorkshire airport #3 would be competing with them.
Not going to happen. It's as futile an argument as the Boris Island nonsense.
I don't think finningley owners would agree to be replaced (just as MME are digging their heels in). I think Yeadon owners are starting to realise what the previous owners (group of local councils[including Leeds City Council]) came to understand about the airport when they owned it. I do not know the full in and outs of the political situation but realise that LBA sits within Leeds City Council jurisdiction. If you google 'calls for new Leeds airport' then you begin to see the possibility of how 3 becomes 2 and subsequently 2 becomes 1. Btw this situation is as different to Boris Island as you can get. Yorkshire has never had an airport that properly represents it whereas London most certainly has. Ok you're still not buying it. I agree with you about politicians though ideally they should keep right out of anything to do with aviation.
It (Church Fenton) is
exactly the same as Boris Island in the sense that (1) it is unviable because it cannot survive alongside existing airports; (2) a business case cannot be made as existing airports cannot be forced to close; (3) not enough demand for an additional airport; (4) pax and carriers want to be elsewhere (LBA); (5) it will never be built and may be seen as a vanity project.
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Yorkshire has never had an airport that properly represents it" because airports usually associate themselves with cities or towns, not counties.
Several airports in the south east of England prefix their names with "London-". Only one of the six official IATA London airports is fairly central (LCY), the others are miles out of town.
Alternatively, politicians could be supportive of aviation. Oh look, another flock of pigs just flew overhead.