...but I suspect is important when it comes to foreign businesses looking to invest in the north.
Any potential investors will have an easy ride from virtually anywhere in the world; until a few miles from touchdown. Then the fun starts and it carries on until you are at your final destination. If the turbulence doesn't get them then the rough runway will. And they walk off the plane possibly onto a clapped out dirty airbridge, though a series of modifications, extensions, and add-ons to the immigration desks. They could well wait here for ages, depending on who arrived before them. And this is the first time they might get a smile. At least Border Force and Special Branch are a pretty pleasant bunch. They then wait in a tiny, tired baggage reclaim centre by clapped out baggage baggage belts and hear the loaders puffing and grunting as they load the belts. Out through customs into a tiny meet and greet and then more fun. They might be privileged to wait a bloody age for a bus to the hire car stop or take their lives in their hand and take ride in a dirty cab, wiping their feet as they get out. But if they are really lucky, they will be met by someone and won't believe the price they pay to leave the car park. And then into Leeds traffic...
Tell me, what impression will LBA have just made on this person?
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