Buster
I think that's why the owners of BRS want to get their hands on it.
Not to run it down or subordinate it to BRS as some in the far south west seem to think (hence the current OFT enquiry into the proposed sale), but to run the airports as complements.
In June BRS went through the 500,000 monthly barrier for the first time and now EXT has breached the 100,000.
The BRS figures are holding up well on the routes on which EXT has competed over the past year or two, so there is plenty of room for development at the three main airports of the government's south west region, the third being BOH which carried over 97,000 pax in August (up 100%) for a rolling 12 months of just under 700,000 (up 42%). With PLH and NQY providing important niche routes the air services in this part of the world are bouyant at the moment.
For some reason SOU is not in the official south west region, although BOH is.