I have said here before that some prices from BHX are very good - but the cost/time of getting there is too great and the balance returns to the local field.
This doesn't seem to matter going the other way - I live in Warwickshire and simply do not have the time to list the huge amount of flights friends have taken by friends living locally from LTN in the last year or two. LTN seems to be the 'first choice search' in Skyscanner and other such search engines for many Midlanders looking for flights to Europe. LTN trumps BHX by a mile in terms of the range of European destinations it serves and in frequency on those routes that BHX does have.
Fantastic achievement, lets hope Nick Barton can do similar at BHX ?
No chance as things stand! BHX is only hoping for 18 million as the end result of a decade long masterplan! The FR base is stagnant (and has been for years) and there will never be an Easy or Wizz base (the only carriers who could send pax figures up in such a way) due to their 'fortress' hubs at LTN and MAN (EasyJet only of course), both of which are readily used by Midlanders due to the relative lack of choice at BHX for such flights.