flybymike:
The trouble is that they firstly decide which bit of uncontrolled airspace it is which they wish to "colonise," then they move in to it, and then and only then, they say it is simply not safe unless it becomes controlled...
That's not the way it works nowadays, at least for UK operators. They're expected by the CAA to conduct a risk assessment before starting a new service to an airport outside CAS, and that assessment has to demonstrate that the risk level is acceptable. Horses and stable doors for existing services, certainly, but I also know of at least one regional airport which has done a generic risk assessment for commercial ops and makes that assessment available to any new operators planning to start services there.
NS