This is pretty shocking news re WW. PMI, ALC and AGP are the international bread-and-butter of any smaller regional airport. I'd say it was pretty likely that another operator would step in but with NCL, LBA and DSA so close by, how likely is this?
It seems pretty foolish to squander a growing local passenger base like this, and also now means that bmi is scarcely represented in NE England. Wouldn't W rotations have been better, say in conjunction with CWL?