All valid points but flawed reasoning. Investment may not solve the problem but it will improve it. I suspect the airside at SOU has not seen any significant investment since the airport was Established back at the start of the 90s. That's over 15 years of neglect, the CAA are going to stop supporting their ILS in the not too distant future! How embarrassing is that? It's like someone still operating Microsoft Windows 3.0! It's very simple, sort out out a new ILS (prefarably one that features technology from this decade
), install new landing lights, build the extended runway runoff area to the north (this can be done within the airport's existing boundary), build the taxiways that will stop aircraft having to backtrack every time they land (even third world airports don't have such nonsense). Before anyone brings up the expense, a certain airport spent £40mil (yes £40mil
) on new infrastructure and there was no real carrot on the end of a stick to make them do it. I would argue SOU does have that carrot on the stick, in fact they paint their planes the same colour.