There might be something in that BHX thing alright. It would be welcome - I'd choose BE over EIR on the same route every day of the week, they are much more reliable and comfortable in my experience.
In other news, August was the second busiest month in the airport's history with 85,000+ travellers using the airport. You can spin this either way of course, while the numbers are very strong in what has been a relatively difficult year for the airport (compared to the last few of steady growth) August 2012 was the busiest ever month so there will have been a year on year drop for August of about four or five percent.
I'd imagine they are still well on target to break 650k passengers this year though which, considering they lost those two Ryanair Euro routes which were artificially increasing the figures somewhat, wouldn't be a bad result.