Apologies to Toon22 for only picking up on his Ryanair base point - the rest of his post is spot on.
A couple of other points for the stagnation in pax numbers - the replacement of 757's by 738/321's - same number of units, fewer seats, and as well as the loss of LGW, the significant reduction in STN.
The foreign charter carriers might be colourful, but they don't deliver much in terms of volume.
On the plus side - EK, UA, EIR, BA, AF, SN, KL, LH, SK ain't a bad rollcall.