mccdatabase, I think you don't quite understand the scale of the losses. The idea that "if that means making a short term loss to rebuild its customer base then surely it makes sense" is long past. They've already got short-term (and much longer ) losses, so the airport needs ANY money NOW just to keep going, hence all the penny-pinching and the jobsworth security guards on min wage part-time f**k you contracts.
What the airport actually needs is major investment which ties infrastructure to new services or vice versa.
NS