Pax figures going up" ... they're not
But they were for the 4 consecutive months before hand, and with a new LAS service, the start of the summer season, easter and Ryanair, I suspect April will be up once more.
Why does doom and gloom have to take such a front stance?" - It doesn't. But its existence does need to be acknowledged and taken into account. Exclusive reporting of happy stories alone is about as useful as a North Korean news broadcast
Yes but we have the 'news' to give us the doom and gloom, thats what they are in the business for.
Also, whilst not to the same, sombering degree of your posts, bad news has been reported on here, the loss of easy to HEL, the loss of MSE and the fact BD has reduced LHR and so on.
At the end of the day, its all very easy and well to speculate what will happen in the future, but, as seen as 90% of news is doom and gloom, and due to the circumstances you have listed previous, is it so hard to grant us our little bit of good news and happiness, as seen as MAN suffered so in the past few years?
As well as work, aviation is my hobby, and you are supposed to enjoy your hobby, but lately, its just 'depression, depression, depression'.
Sure, if services fail, or the situation dips back to constant negativity again, you are more than welcome to come in, but come on, surely a little light heartedness wont go amiss on here?