In message , at 09:48:20 on Thu, 29 Sep
2016, tim... remarked:

The problem with BMIB was that they only flew from one region of the
country (the midlands) [1] which presumably wasn't a big enough
catchment for the quantity/type of flights that they offered.

Not that the individual airports were inconvenient (though for PT
access, one of them was)

[1] that's all Wikipedia will admit to, did they fly (to Europe) from
elsewhere?

Aberdeen, Bristol and Newcastle.

Like I said, their main problem was tidal flow. I used to fly regularly
from East Midlands to Schiphol, and the 7am flight out was always
packed, but the immediate return leg (about 10am Dutch time) was
virtually empty. As was the inbound flight for the busy 7pm departure
from Schiphol.
--
Roland Perry