I would point out that I work AT the airport not FOR the airport. The graphs above (as published by Wikipedia - not my work) were meant to indicate that both airports have shown a large growth in passenger numbers since the general slump in air travel 10 years or so ago. My apologies to anyone who interprets it as another STN versus LTN (or LTN versus STN) post. The BTNews article, whilst accurate in much of its criticism, implies that passenger numbers are in decline (ONLY 16m per year, voting with feet etc.). So I thought I would at least put the record straight on that bit as the reality is the opposite.