Qatar Air Mulls Gatwick Route as Heathrow Flight Upgraded to 787 - Bloomberg Business
An article about Qatar in the UK and Ireland with their main man in this country musing on possible expansion which includes the comment:
Away from London, it’s looking at serving southwest England and possibly another Scottish airport, Oliver said.
If they did move south west it may not be BRS of course. Could be CWL or EXT.
CAA stats
October's provisional figures were published today showing that 640,190 passengers passed through the terminal during the month which is an increase of 8.6% on October 2014. The rolling 12-month total stood at 6,703,084, an increase of 6.4% on a year ago.
At the beginning of this year the airport predicted 6.7 million for the calendar year of 2015 so, short of some unexpected brake on progress, the final figure ought to be a bit above 6.7