Originally Posted by
Heathrow Harry
Anyone who thinks that people in this green and pleasant land will "be happy" at the idea of a "fledgling airport and a few houses" on their doorstep is clearly in need of serious medical help............................ most of them go mad if you paint your front door a different colour
Exactly! And unless there were to be some "national plan" that forced the closure of LBA and development of Church Fenton the result of developing the latter would be another unnecessary commercial airport being opened, that would undoubted lose money for the operators, whilst at the same time diluting traffic away from LBA that also wouldn't close.
The UK, perhaps excepting the Southeast, needs fewer, better airports, rather than loads of smaller ones that a struggle to remain viable.