God/airline route planning
Trying to steer away from emotion, and towards statistics, I see on one of the route prospecting sites that MAN had 56,000 indirect passengers to Beijing in 2011, and 36,000 leakage to London.
Anyone have equivalent figures for BHX?
My company sells flights from Asia/Pacific, Europe and North America to points worldwide and MAN is usually top 5 as a European destination, BHX is towards the bottom of the top 20/25. Overall demand is far greater to Manchester.
Of course the far broader range of carriers into MAN could favour BHX, as could any airport incentives on offer if BHX were to be more keen than MAN, but on a purely economic basis I'd be keen to see the BHX demand to compare with Manchester's....anyone?