wb9999:
2 million in the first 3 years of a brand new airport, in my opinion, shows that the demand is there if the flights are there
The DSA business model, as tested in the public inquiry in 2003, was to poach the vast majority of their passengers from Manchester, Leeds-Bradford and Humberside. They grew in the first two years and it's been downhill ever since. It was always a shaky business model. It started to fail before the downturn.
NS