EMA is British Midland's home base
I'm not sure if bmi would agree with that anymore....
There are nearly as many Ryanair based aircraft at EMA as there is in the entire baby fleet. Jet2 are more likely to present the bigger threat and FR seem to regard WW as dead man walking.
Given that there are no mainline services out of EMA anymore, is there any local loyalty to build upon? If there are significant cost savings in using LH Technics, how long will the engineering base remain at EMA?