Bagso
A got a feeling of deja vu when I read Ryanair's announcement.
This is indeed a repeat of the promises O'Leary made to BHX when he announced the 'superbase' there.
'There will be eventually up to 10 based aircraft, 2 million extra passengers and rising, perhaps up to 100 routes, we will build a new hangar', well, you know what happened - very little.
A ryanair expansion has to be at the expense of one or more other airlines, in Birmingham's case it seems to be Bmibaby which took the hit.
In BHX they came in, introduced up to 35 plus routes and, for a year or so, as people tried the new routes things looked fine but meantime, rivals on other established routes came under pressure.
Manchester will perhaps get that initial surge but when things settle down where will all those promised exra passengers come from?
Leeds and Liverpool perhaps?
Interesting times.