Interesting comments - yes H77 is right pax numbers heading in the right direction, but as HWU says at what cost? Huge amounts spent on the terminal, good reviews but you'd expect that when there are more staff than passengers and everything is shiny and new (exagerating for effect but you know what I mean...). Is there really enough custom to sustain the Duty Free shop and Ballantine's (another puff piece in the Echo today)?
The whole Eastern/Loganair saga was strange and we know Ryanair take no prisoners. Without LM/RYR. pax numbers would be much as under Peel?
Willis advertise a hangar capable of taking 3 narrowbodies with the wingspan of a 757 and parking for 50+ plus narrow/wide bodies, but have handled 3 737's in eighteen months (and yes, some other bits and pieces) while their competitors home and abroad have been bursting at the seems.
The southside development seems to have been going on for ever and finally there might be some movement - with Amazon on the doorstep you'd have thought they would be first on the mayors list, but things only just seem to be moving?
Does anybody know what Stobarts role really was, or what is happening with the charitable trust - again, still dragging on.
Interesting times - still...