Originally Posted by
FRatSTN
Airlines are not just going to up sticks and move traffic from BHX to EMA because of security queues. The only way that would happen realistically is if BHX reduced their capacity declaration and forced airlines to reduce their schedules, and even that would only be short term.
At the end of the day, airlines are operating in a commercially competitive environment and somebody like Ryanair are not going to sacrifice market share at BHX and allow others like EasyJet and Jet2 to take their capacity.
R Remember the other dide of the coin - those things called Passengers. These 4 pax gave up on BHX around 2018 (endless queues ad the whole place with all the charm of a Shopping mall) land now travel an extra 20 miles each way to get our Jet2 flights. OK not the most salubrious of airports but we have yet to queue in the BHX sense and it has a much more pleasant stmosphere.
Maybe BHX will be happy to lose passengers - it'll keep the queues down.