EU Law won't allow PSO on Commercial routes.
...you keep going on about commercial routes. 1 x flight a day is not what this route needs - hence the need for a PSO to subsidise the losses on an airline to operate according to the needs of the area. The PSO was not set up to get a 9am and 5pm flight up and running....a dog on the street could make money on that scenario. PSO are set up to give support for the non- profitable routes that woudl be needed to make business interests in a designated area viable vis-a-vis access to the main Capital.
This PSO is not EU monies and hence they do not have a say in it - it is Irish Tax Payers who fund this. Also - Galway Airport have already tested thsi out as far as the EU courts and the EU has no objection in The Irish Gov allocating PSO as it wishes.