Wake-up and Smell the Coffee
Of course Lossie will close. With JSF orders reduced the only place they will go is to Yeovilton to be flown by the Fleet Air Arm again, why on earth would they want their carrier aircraft based in the North of Scotland only to have to embark what is left of an Air Wing off the South Coast.
Just Another Jocky - get with it what MPA? Would you believe it our Maritime Nation has had the wisdom to bin that capability.
As to turning Kinloss and Lossie to Army bases. Same arguement on location applies. The Army only really has one training area that is any good for any of their kit - Salisbury Plain. They will want all of their units near by and easily deployable from Brize International or any other of the Southern Airports that the Transport Aircraft Consortium PLC wish to operate from, the contract will cost far too much to have them picked up from Scotland.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I fear what are now seeing is the dying throws of the 100 year Air Force experiment