Bristol
Interesting comments re Bristol. In summary of 3 travellers ( a wide sample I admit!) they all find it far from traveller friendly. Cardiff is an alternative but does always work. Reading between the lines the other contributor is either happy with the route or doesn't have any need to use it!!
While every company is responsible to its shareholders, the airport's job is to get more people through the door to spend more money while there! I'll be taking the train down and flying back so the airport gets nothing from car parking or the money I may spend in the terminal. So it does come back to the airport to work with airlines to provide services that work for its customers. Admittedly the c80k passengers that are no longer using the route any more may not have been making anyone any money or perhaps the airport has managed to get them to fly to the places served by multiple operators such AGP, ALC and PMI where the bar takings pre flight will be much higher 😀