I think you'll find that having been around in Bournemouth for over 100 years, long before the airport even existed, that the Bournemouth Daily Echo Team certainly know alot more about the airport than Manchester Airport Group - don't you think? The Echo reporters will know all about the general lack of progress at the airport going back to the days of Dan Air in the 1970s when it was a thriving "local" providing many flights to the Channel Islands and the Dan Air Link City service that connected the airport with the rest of the UK.
The current standard of reporters writing for the Echo completely contradicts the above statement! If the reporter had been any good and knew anything about the industry surely he/she should have challenged the MD's statement, or at least not just printed it without comment?