Glad to see them go!
Firstly, I hope none of the FR people lose their jobs over this pull-out. They were only doing the jobs asked of them.
But as for the corporate Ryanair, I'm glad to see the back of them. Usually I don't get 'personal' about these things, but FR have brought the general theory of customer care into utter disrepute. From adverts that misled the public, to inexcusable charges for using recognised credit cards, and often times prices that were more expensive than they cared to recognise...
I hope the gap is filled by airlines that actually do seem to want to look after their customers...be it FlyBe, Easy or BMI...
...and as for the runway extension, this probably removes the only argument that could possibly have been made in its favour...that one airline was 'proposing' European flights. With that airline now gone, common sense can break out again. I can't see what financial incentive BHD now have to continue to push the extension.