Southend management used to boast that the airport was the U.K’s fastest growing airport, as they only looked at the percentage growth. Now whatever way you measure the airport it is now the UK’s worst performing airport while the rest of the industry is recovering. The business model for the airport no longer exists and at the moment London doesn’t need Southend. If the airport has deep pockets it will recover but it will take a based operator to get the terminal open again as there will be opening costs involved. I can’t see a couple of weekly flights from a non based operator tipping the balance.