I do live these BFS put down comments. Are we not allowed to be proud of our local airport? Is it wrong to have ambitions for it?
Anyway!
The DUB question has a few answers..
1. It has more destinations (I have to use it because of this)
2. Some travel agents have a natural bias towards it (see my post on trailfinders)
3. People seem to be OK with spending £20/£30 on petrol/bus fare to DUB to save maybe £50 on a return flight.
Our politicians haven't helped mush either (we need a train link to BFS). Hopefully the new owners will be better at working with them