Originally Posted by
Andy_S
And the lack of funding.
Somebody has used private funding to buy the airport. Everybody thought it would be a housing estate or industrial estate. If there was a pan political will to establish a fit for purpose airport in the north east while running down a unsuitable, constrained airport then funding would immediately become available. Politicians have huge power but they can only delay the inevitable for so long. Yorkshire and the Humber inhabitants (and North Eastern inhabitants in general) will not put with being 2nd class citizens in aviation terms any longer. A correctly positioned and connected airport at the expense of two failing airports to the Eastern side of the Pennines is clearly a more than viable project and that is why it has begun.