Lovejet
"Bournemouth is the second largest city in the south west (after Bristol): it should be able to support core domestic routes."
Not wanting to sound picky but Exeter & Plymouth are surely bigger and they ARE cities, Bournemouth is a town unless i'm much mistaken. Also I would of put the cities of Bath & Gloucester and towns of Swindon and possibly Taunton as bigger than Bournemouth.
However BOH is faring about the same as other uk airports, there is a downturn wherever you look so I wouldnt get too dispondent, just this week Lufthansa have said they're leaving BRS at the end of the month, after only a year, and BRS pax figs for feb are 26% down, this coming from probably the UK's fastest growing regional airport over the last 5 years or so.