Painfully embarrassing but not unsurprisingly given what we see from other senior people in NI. The truth of the matter is, Belfast does not need two airports, and as long as it has two, it will never become a major airport. All the feeder traffic in their small aircrafts go into BHD, whilst the aircraft that could do potentially longer distance flights would be based at BFS. But who wants to drive through Antrim in the Summer with all the EDL type paraphernalia around? If we had an unlimited budget, close the two airports down, give over BHD land to developers, and BFS back to the army and create a new airport capable of maybe 10-12 million, and a couple of longer routes. And improve the rail links to Dublin airport so that those in Belfast could be experiencing the wide variety of routes out of DUB within an hour and a half of departing Belfast Central Station. An Island the size of Ireland only needs one large airport, and its obviously going to be located at the economic and international heart of it.