I suppose that AENA, the airport operator at El Prat, is wondering how it will fill its terminals there with a new one due to open soon. The same is true for Alicante and perhaps at other airports in Spain, too.
Are there any rumours about Ryanair serving the new airport at Castellon?
Ryanair's decision not to base aircraft at Valencia looks interesting in the light of the Generalitat's (regional autonomous government) desperate attempts to address the decline in tourism, as reported in the Spanish press.
Meanwhile, down the road in Alicante Ryanair serves 37 destinations. Does anyone know why the Generalitat took the view it did in Valencia whilst, presumably, agreeing to a deal with Ryanair in Alicante? Or was it not involved in the latter?