Can anyone suggest how "an effective team" can be assembled in 36 hours? As I understand it, all would-be operatives on the apron needed to go through the appropriate channels for them to go through security processes before they gain airside passes....something that can take months. So for today's events, it means that they would have had to start that process perhaps back in November. Then MAN put them on a retainer "just in case" and in the meantime these people would have to be trusted to keep their diairies free for 3 to 6 months so that nothing could potentially clash with what may be needed once in 10 to 20 years. In the meantime we could be talking 50 people on reasonable money (let's pitch in at £5.80/hr for a 37 hour week for 20 weeks which equates to well over £4000 perperson or £200,000 in total without any overtime) for no net effect except to necessitate a rise in airport charges to reflect these extra costs which is something that most, if not all, airlines are clamouring against.
As for the shops needing flights on the ground, are you suggesting that there are no passengers already at the airport ready for the outbound sectors?