Posted in June 2009
24,790 pax in April would in terms of number of pax throughput, give MME a ranking in the UK somewhere close to Scatsta in Shetland. It does at least comfortably beat other places in Shetland / Orkney like Sumburgh and Kirkwall
In April 2011 MME had approx 16,300 passengers.
Looking at CAA stats for the year from July 2010 to June 2011, Scatsta now has substantially more passengers than MME. Come to that, if you ignore airports on islands, the only UK airports with scheduled passenger service and smaller passenger numbers are Dundee, Manston, Plymouth and Southend
Reading the article in the Northern Echo, I can't figure out why a route from MME to Southend should work, when the train from Darlington to King's Cross would be both a faster and more frequent way to reach central London - can someone point the obvious bit of logic that I'm missing ?