PK's job is to make profits for the shareholders, something which, despite these recessionary times, he has succeeded in doing last year
Agreed thats what he is employed to do but its such a shame he seems to have decided to achieve that goal by focusing on developing the range of shops at the expense of developing the ailing route network. His comments about CVT are simply a running scared knee jerk reaction. If BHX had paid more attention to keeping its once strong European network of flights intact (instead of focusing on long haul pipe dreams that are unlikely to happen) then it would be unlikely that there would even be a rumour of short haul flights from CVT.
On a more positive note, I see that Monarch are now showing scheduled flights to Heraklion and Zante from BHX next summer, this is in addition to PVK and CHQ, although I am unsure as to whether these are pure charter as they are not yet listed on the Monarch scheduled website.