Originally Posted by
Runway_approach
I genuinely think it's simply a case of too many airports serving the same services in a relatively small market place - eh Birmingham has the same population as Ireland yet - we have services like Paris operating from cork Dublin and Shannon less than two hours away from each other - There's a proven market for UK services from all the airports given the diaspora links and prob sun services - the inbound European services appear to be challenging from regional airports especially with all the major growth recently at Dublin
In fairness, this "Too many Airports on west coast" has been WELL realised at this stage. We all know it. Birmingham has a population of 1,069,000, Ireland has 4,500,000. Bit inaccurate? Yes, there's a proven market for UK routes, yet there no Scottish route in Kerry, Knock or Shannon.
There's also a larger inbound market on the west coast of Ireland. Alot of people like visiting the Cliff of Moher, Galway, etc, whereas Birmingham is not as much of a tourist attraction.