Originally Posted by
eggc
Birmingham has just invested 200m and is under utilised.
There is capacity at Stansted.
Manchester has 40% spare capacity
For goodness sake, this is because people don't WANT to go here, or to Much-Snoring-in-the-Marsh International, or wherever. They want to go to London. In the Netherlands they don't want (and thus the airlines don't want) to go to Rotterdam or Eindhoven. They want to go to Schiphol.
BA used to have a good few flights out of Birmingham. They eventually gave them all up. Why ? Because they LOST MONEY on them all there. Consistently, year after year, shareholders money pi55ed down the drain at Birmingham. The airlines are not fools, they know where there is demand and where there is not. BMI had a shot at transatlantic flights with A332s from this wonderful Manchester. Huge amounts of money lost, until it was given up.