Just ran some numbers. In the mid-2000s, there were [approximately] 17 charter or low cost airlines that did or might have served MME, and a further 15 European ones. Que the 2008 recession, and you now have four UK and five European, of which two of the latter have moved away from charter flying, and similarly the UK operators tend not to contract the European ones much any more, and there are no independent tour operators left who would contract the European ones themselves. Of the four UK operators, only one would not be deterred by the sandwich effect/overlapping catchment areas etc also caused by the 2008 recession, and might eventually consider an MME base.