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LEEDS APPROACH
And this is where your argument completely falls flat on its backside! Leeds and West Yorkshire [and Yorkshire in General] is a massive city and population - that is why the City's railway station is the 2nd busiest in England outside of London. It is very high up in England's hierarchy, as you put it. Yeadon airport's low passenger figure most certainly does NOT reflect what is possible from this region and is purely down to the airport's highly limiting geographic location combined with its real and perceived inaccessibility as well as its inability to handle certain flights.
I don't quite see how the population of west Yorkshire (2.16m, hardly "massive") is going to increase by switching commercial airline traffic 15 miles further away from your main centre of population and economic activity?