For 40 years the North West have been grinning like the Cheshire cat at absolutely abject civil aviation transport failure within Yorkshire that has propelled Manchester airport skyward. Abject scandalous failure.
My understanding is that MAN opened as a commercial airport PDQ with a temporary (tent) terminal and from that their route infrastructure grew whilst competitors, LPL to name but one, delayed opening whilst they fannied around building an art deco terminal etc.
The rest is history and it's going to take more than a disused ex military WWII airfield somewhere in Yorkshire to change that history!