Originally Posted by
Pain in the R's
I don’t see why it is the responsibility of the airport to advertise new routes if the airlines don’t think it is needed. Airlines launch new routes all the time without the public being told but passengers still manage to find them.
I completely agree, except the problem with Southampton is that so many of the potential users of the new services have no idea that SOU provides such services. At airports such as Bristol, Birmingham and even Bournemouth, people expect to be able to fly a range of holiday destinations and European cities as a matter of course, but there are still far too many people locally who still think - 'oh yes, Eastleigh Airport, that's the place where you can get a plane to the Channel Islands'.