Excellent post Sawtooth, fully agree that the approach in recent years has been agreesive but given financial state of economy and airports reported debt situation and aviation sector in Ireland in general Knock airport cant afford to maintain 12-14 hour opending days for what is essentially a threadbare schedule. Double dailys to London would be great but no airline will introduce these in whats essentially a leisure market during the winter season when they already have 3 daily london flights - Id imagine management will be pushing hard for these for summer 2012. As Galway have found out to their cost maintaining 14 hour opening days for half full flights is no longer sustainable given diminishing Govt funding which appears will diminsh even further next year. Roll to the end, the management team at the airport are all relativley new, all the longstanding members are now gone so your post isnt valid whilst Knock63 you seem to have a vested interest in that you would rather see airport open at 6am to midnight to keep 12 hour days for staff when in reality 6 of these hours they will be twiddling their thumbs! what type of business can sustain this type of operation I wonder without haemoraguing cash? I would be of the opinion that managements strategy is spot on and hopefully they are preparing for growth and longer hours for summer '12 when airlines are more open to expand.