Tartintom - 60% load factor? Do you know the facts? The BLK aircraft used to operate via NQY over the winter, so they only sold around half the aircraft for BLK originating passengers, so of course the loadf factor will look bad - as half the pax got on at NQY!
Since the service has been operating directly, and even accounting for the over night flight, the loads have been around 80% - not bad for a scheduled service and I am sure comparable compared to Manchester, Liverpool and the likes.
Re next year, of course the airport is not closed on a tuesday! Jet2.com only have 3 or 4 of the 9 routes the operate on sale for summer 2007, on average BLK will be dealing with around 10-12 low cost flights per day (between FR and LS) in 2007. In addition to this, you have the regional Irish Sea traffic and anything else that may happen between now and then.