Disappointing but the finger is being pointed at charter pax
and I have never known so many IT flights end early with
only Rhodes bucking the trend.
OP surely this must also be the case at other UK airports like EMA but they have managed to record an increase in pax numbers? Although scheduled routes at BHX appear on your figures to be holding up, I still say there is a vast amount of leakage from the region which hopefully will be partially re-addressed slightly with the new/reintroduced routes announced for next summer. Just as an example four of my colleagues (plus families, in total 18 passengers) who all live in Warwick and Leamington are flying away for Christmas (to MAD, HAM, NCE and KRK), none of them are using BHX because of lack of direct flights and/or price. It would seem that many are still prepared to drive miles to another airport get a cheap direct flight than pay a bit more, fly from BHX and change en route.......I guess thats the problem of being located slap bang in the middle of the country with good motorway links elsewhere!