Thomas Cook have merged with the Co-operative travel group, who have a fairly significant high street presence in Yorkshire; about 20 stores within 10 miles of LBA. No doubt the airport are hoping a bigger distribution network will encourage TCX to make more capacity available locally. With the recent management changes within the Thomas Cook Group, the strategic review and the performance of their share price, I doubt they are in a particularly expansive mode on the airline side, so keeping what the airport has currently might be deemed a success.