BHX needs to get a grip.
EVERY UK major conurbation has a native low cost airline, often two. BHX has an anaemic BMIBaby offering and a handful of Ryanair W patterns. Come on the second city(!), get a grip. Lower your ridiculous charges. You CANNOT charge more than LONDON Stansted without looking like complete pillocks. BHX management are damaging the Midlands economy because:
a) They have no serious rival airport (don't say Coventry as its rubbish).
b) They charge so much that only middle east and barely profitable airlines can operare and in the first case there is no European routing and in the last no non-regional.
This should not be allowed to stand. BHX is a valuable resource which is being mismanaged. People are starting to notice. The likes of Bristol and Liverpool were Minnows compared to Birminghams Pike only 6 years ago. How times change. Perhaps BHX's management should be changed to reflect this?
AP