Piltdown Man has hit the nail firmly on the head..LBA is what it always was, a local airport for the Leeds/Bradford and surrounding areas and a nice place to start and finish your holidays with a couple of international connections bolted on. That is what it is good at and I suspect that`s how the owners intend to keep it and no doubt it suits those with aircraft based there to boot..
For all the rest of world travel there`s Manchester, an hours train ride from Leeds, which is pretty much how most of the catchment area perceive it to be.