Passengers and tourists are being lost to DUBLIN every day, tens of thousand of them yet we in the west blame the each other for losing a few hundred. Shannon and Knock will always struggle for new business and operators will come and go frequently as they have at SNN for many decades. This Business is a cyclic wave and airports have to ride it or fall. While Knock has probably maxed out this year it is only last year since SNN was at the other end of the scale. SNN lost a load of business when FR pulled out before and Knock traffic boomed even though the country was entering its worst recession and Knock management got all the credit.