He is playing the game, just as Manchester did few years back plonking adverts advertising Manchester Airport right outside Birmingham Airport. These asking Brummies to fly from a proper International Airport..Manchester.
No, he is not playing the same game at all.
Plonking adverts in your competitors zone is one thing, and there is no love lost in war with that respect.
What Mr Kehoe is doing, is playing the dirty game of disparaging your competitors with slurs and infactual rantings.
Mr Kehoe has accused MAN of 'prostituting itself to get in airlines', insinuated MAN is only where it is through incentives, the BHX has the stronger catchement but MAN has the deeper pockets and that it gets unfair government loans to win over air services. All of which are wrong.
When was the last time you saw Ken O'Toole or the Cornishes state 'BHX only gets routes through pay offs' or other similar slurs. I certainly can't remember a time?
But of course, you are likely only defending him because he is the boss of the beloved BHX. I'm sure if Mr O'Toole of Cornish started spouting the crap Mr Kehoe does, you would have something to say about it. We are unlikely to ever know, however, given the attacks are one way only!