Excellent posts by Shed and MANFOD, I must confess I'm struggling to see how l 2 flights a day from LHR to Teesside, Humberside and say another 3 into Leeds is going to bring a tsunami of riches ?
If LHR feels benevolent why not bung them a couple of million each....in fact let's go wild how about an outrageous 50 million each.....
still 850million left in the coffers !
Multiply this by wait for it a factor of at least 20 and we getting somewhere with in spitting difference of the outlay !
As for the LHR CEO promising his counterpart at Leeds the earth well sorry I think BA might have a view on that !