SAM
The base is closing. In the airline industry you do not open 90 day consultaions or announce you 'plan' to close bases unless you are going to. In the words of CEO Andy Harrison "In regard to East Midlands we cannot see a growing long term future and we have decided to move our assets to markets with better long term potential."
I have no idea why the flights remain on sale, but easyjet will not have a base at EMA next year.
This was always going to happen. EMA cannot sustain such capacity as it has right now, especially in the current economic climate. Fact is that three low cost airlines, as well as Thomson and Thomas Cook, is still good for an airport the size of EMA.