Airlines are not interested in Southampton quite simply because it isnt fit for purpose.
Stands too small, runway too short, aircraft having to backtrack due to lack of taxiway.
Why not turn it into a business park and have a massive expansion at Bournmouth??
Bournemouth Airport - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
From November 1944 the airfield took over from Bristol's Whitchurch airport as the main operating base for British Overseas Airways Corporation until Heathrow fully opened in 1948. Starting in October 1945 Hurn served as London's transatlantic airport until Heathrow opened to the airlines in mid-1946. It was the starting point of the first England-Australia landplane service, which took three days in Avro Lancastrians (modified Lancaster bombers). The airport served Accra, Cairo, Calcutta, Johannesburg, New York, Sydney and Washington D.C.
BOH had it's place in history as did such an airport as LPL, get over it!
