Originally Posted by
Harry Wayfarers
There are plenty of UK airports stuck miles from motorways and/or main rail, CWL, BRS, EXT, NQY, BOH, SEN, NWI, HUY, MME, NCL, BLK, LPL to name but some, his only valid argument is that LBA is elevated at some 700ft in full awareness that that is something that LBA cannot improve upon.
On this island where I live they are spending bucket loads of money on a sports arena that nobody wants whilst we don't even have a medical facility with an x-ray machine ... How about forgetting your rubber necking activities and campaign for better health facilities in Yorkshire ... i.e. Do something worthwhile and what the people want!
Harry you cannot just trot out a huge list of airports. You take each airport individually. Each airport will have its own population catchment and geography and critically the competition it is up against. If your airport is up against very efficient and accessible competition then putting your airport in a relatively inaccessible location will have a much greater impact than if your airport had lesser direct competition such as NCL.
The Yorkshire region is under gigantic attack from very very efficient accessible competition and therefore the location of a Leeds and Yorkshire airport is utterly utterly critical. Moving an airport just a short distance can more than triple the passenger throughput.