Xtypeman
At last - someone who clearly understands the markets and the forces therein!
This thread appears to have become a thread for bashing JH and anyone associated with business development at the airport.
The truth is that CWL will always lag behind BRS, for one predominant reason only - the size of the catchment area. BRS has a potential catchment area of circa 5m persons within a one hour drive time. CWL has a population of 2m in the same drive time.
Not rocket science then that BRS has over 2.5 times the number of pax!!!
I would suggest that JH and the CWL management are developing the business really rather nicely - the last numbers I saw which were over two years ago before I left, indicated that EBITDA was well in excess of £12m for one year - not bad for a 2m pax airport.
Now try to convince me CWL management are ineffective...