The terminal is a shed. The cash machine was out of order this afternoon.
ThompsonFly was a nasty little tropical afflication wiped out by DDT - much like the airline of a similar name will be.
As for regional airports I think you'll find easyJet are the UK's biggest provider of regional airport air transport. By some considerable margin. Whilst still being the largest London based shorthaul airline.
Manchester is too expensive too congested and too inefficient to support EZY style ops. BOH simply to parochial to support 5+ 737/319 aircraft. The second division LCA's may well be tempted to set up a limited operations though. Suprises me that Jet2 haven't.