Funny how you saw fit to comment on my post Markeyd?
Let's take the bias out of proceedings. Some quick facts:
SOU 128k pax and a 21% increase last month;
BOH 20k pax and down 11% in same month.
Not sure what your background is markeyd, but you don't have to be Bill Gates to have the business acumen to decide which horse to back.
That's before we even get to talking about infrastructure and usability which BOH at best could only match SOU. That's after BOH had a motorway and train line/station built on it's doorstep, a few 100 million might get the ball rolling I suppose. Looking at close to a billion though.
Oh and yes of course the few hundred cruise passengers would love a small detour to BOH not to mention the rest of us who would quite happily fly to MAN from SOU and then back to BOH on the way back. Why not, it is perfectly logical.
If anyone can present a case for BE operating at BOH whilst it has the SOU monopoly in it's back pocket I am all ears. More than happy to hold my hands up if you can convince me.