I am a bit of newcomer to the region and MME is only about 20 mins away from where I live. I see that Ryan Air have gone for a base at LBA, one can assume it's to try and draw passengers who frequent LPL and MAN airports. It would have been nice for me to see a strong commitment at MME by at least one budget airline offering some destinations that the main players leave to the small airlines, an example being Aberdeen or Scandanavia. . Ok I am biased as I travel home to Aberdeen at weekends but there is no way I am paying £155 to sit on an Eastern Airways Ford Escort with propellors. I accept that this route is mainly full of hairy bottomed oil workers paying premium fares (or their companies are paying) and there is no competition on this route. I see very little in the local press that makes me believe that MME will be anything other than a little backwater airport that is lacking a plan for the future.