StGermain: You spout all that pessimism yet you clearly don't know the airport or live locally. The potential at SOU is huge, I compiled a long lost of its USPs sometime ago and will drag it up at some point. The only limit at SOU is airside investment, or the lack thereof. If you think investment would be daft take a look at that shower down the road. MAG made serious investment despite the fact they had no airlines to satisfy and seemingly none on the horizon. The problem with SOU was that it was owned by BAA and was the runt of the litter. It's now seemingly owned by an investment vehicle and will continue to be an asset to park some money in. SOU just needs to be owned by a company that works and makes it's money from the transport sector. MAG, stobart etc.