Originally Posted by
SWBKCB
Wider economic considerations also play a significant part - BRS and NCL were EZY bases and at one stage had very similar numbers of based a/c and route networks. Easy now have no base at NCL whereas at BRS they expanded massively. Think that is more to do with disposal income and propensity to travel than the attitude of airport management
I agree with you.
Every town and city has its afluent and not so afluent parts, but certainly in the West Midlands, and I imagine the NCL catchment the percentage of people with real disposable income is rather less than Bristol and environs.
It is what it is and airports have to work within the economic world. I actually think that BHX is doing OK, and actually starting to make some real headway. It would be doing a lot better if EMA wasn't 50 minutes up the road, but it is.