Parent company of a major low cost airline, and the sister companies of said airline were looking at launching Routes from 2012 from PIK. This included having a presence in the terminal. However agreements failed when it was agreed that "Barrhead" Staff could leaflet in the Arrivals Hall and also right outside the planned location of the operators offices. However the operator was not allowed to do the same.
1. This could annoy passengers-do you really want someone handing out leaflets to you when you land?
2. Why should operators put passengers through to be marketed to by Barrhead and lose revenue from Direct Sales (every operator relies on a portion of direct sales).
3. There was no objection to the Barrhead Shop, just the agreed marketing activities.
As I said all eggs in one basket- Barrhead are allowed to be dominant and PIK fails to gather new routes.
Commercially the Barrhead "shop" was getting a better deal than an actual operator that wanted to introduce new routes.