But surely the figures for the Palma flights are down due to the loss of the scheduled flights by Volotea!
Perhaps the airports catchment are has got rather tired of Palma and are searching alternative destinations that are not currently flown from SOU and is where a LOCO comes into play to offer a variation of routes to the airport.
The current sun routes from Southampton to Alicante, Faro, Ibiza, Mahon, Malaga, Palma are great but once you've been to all them on numerous occasions it gets rather tedious.
Now if a wider selection of destinations to Europe i.e. Business links with major cities and a wider selection of Mediterranean sun routes were offered from SOU with a well known airline such as BACF or Easyjet it would give the airport more awareness and the routes on offer and this will only help the current destinations thrive.
If the plans within the new Master Plan actually do go ahead and the airport can attract the likes of BACF and EasyJet amongst others I can see the airport having a very bright future, the future may well be ORANGE :-)