jabird,
Whoever made a comparison between CVT and EMA, EMA in itself has nothing much to brag about besides being a courier hub and HQ to BMI.
CVT, passenger wise, may only become successful as a 2nd airport to Brum and once CVT has modern and adequate facilities on the ground, currently there is no need whatsoever for a 2nd Brum airport whilst CVT ground facilities, to be polite about it, are dated, tired and inadequate.
And as for suggestions of EZY, with all of Europe to open new destinations, bases, is it really being suggested that EZY opt for a tired and dated airfield 65 miles up the road from their main operating base?
Mainland UK is not a nation that needs an airport every 65 miles, indeed every 15 miles, and there reaches a point of market saturation, EZY operate to/from BRS but not EXT or CWL, reason being that if they duplicate their product too close a distance (population wise) to each other then they end up shooting themselves in the foot.
People want to use airports that are close to them? What one minute, two minutes, five minutes from their homes? Are you seriously suggesting that the population of Coventry are up in arms that the local international airport is all of a ten minute train journey away?
Get real!!!