Originally Posted by
DavidShepherd
I have to say that Leeds Approach is absolutely spot on with his points about Leeds Bradford (although there seems to be some history here and it looks like he gets some of your backs up).
I think most sensible people would agree that there’s an underlying truth in what Leeds Approach says; the existing LBIA is sub-optimal in terms of location, access and space constraints, and if you could turn back the clock you’d put it somewhere else. That’s fair enough.
Here’s the problem. You can’t turn back the clock and we are where we are. But LA stubbornly refuses to accept this, and advocates developing an alternative site as a new Yorkshire airport with almost obsessive zeal while studiously avoiding any questions about where the funding for such a development will come from and how it will be commercially viable in an already crowded marketplace. And every time you think the discussion has exhausted itself, a few months later up he pops again, rehashing the same old arguments, all heavily infused with a sense of entitlement and a very obvious grievance against other airports. The first couple of times the discussion was interesting, thereafter it was moderately amusing for a while, but now it’s just becoming tiresome.