This was the BBC's take on the situation as reported last Friday, 24 July:
Carlisle flights 'won't take off again until 2021'
The airline that operates flights in and out of Carlisle says it has no plans to restart them "for the foreseeable future".
Loganair flights to London Southend, Belfast and Dublin were grounded in March, less than a year after they started flying, because of the pandemic.
In 2017 the airport was given £4.75m by Cumbria's Local Enterprise Partnership to upgrade its terminal and runway, and starting flights was seen as an important development for the regional economy.
Carlisle Airport has so far only said that announcements will be made in due course but the travel journalist Malcolm Ginsberg says he isn't expecting anything to happen this year.
I personally believe there is a future for the airport but not this year, let's forget about this year and talk about 2021."
Loganair and its managing director Jonathan Hinkles will look at the routes and the aircraft I suspect in January or February next year, see what's happening and then make a quick assessment
Malcolm GinsbergTravel journalist