We've discussed in another forum the poor performance of the airport's publicity machine in the past year or two, Marko, as you will no doubt recall with the consensus amongst members there that they were in agreement. A few years ago BRS was very good at publicity. When Grayling, the Transport Secretary, visited BRS a few months ago he told the CEO he had no idea how busy the airport was.
I suppose the airport will point to the fact that they quietly get on with things and, poor publicity machine or not, they will be looking at around 8.3 mppa at the end of 2017, up from 6.3 mppa at the end of 2014.
The place makes handsome profits for its owner, even though some don't like the idea that the beneficiary is an overseas pension fund. That said, the owner and previous partners have invested £160 million since 2010 and a similar amount in the decade before that. They might say they put their money where their mouth is rather than bellowing empty air.
Perhaps in its search for a new CEO the airport should be looking for a Les Wilson figure. Les never stopped telling people about his airport, whether they wanted to know or not. Les Wilson-types might be in short supply these days - he was a born showman - and anyway today's corporate approach would probably eschew his like.