Adding to that Mr Hat. The reason they are so shortsighted with bases is mainly due to the incompetence of the people running these LCCs.
When the various financial incentives thrown at them to get them in, start running out, these managers do the only thing they know best and that is run away from their f@*k ups and blame someone else.
The incompetence of these guys is taking management ideology to lows we have never seen before.
Idiots.