FR do not do major maintenance at PIK only A+ checks. They don't own the hangars and have very few of their own staff there. Wages are slave labourish. They could move out easily.
BA Glasgow have taken the big hangar for 2 years with their program of a+ checks on A320. Not much use to them if they cannot fly them in and out it would nullify the lease I guess?
FR cutting to 12 flights per week come end of OCT which includes cutting the STN flight completely! Ouch.
Freight figures(only 2 operators) are down 11% from even last abyssmal year and summer pax figures are well down.
Military don't use it so often now because of the intrusions in 2007.
Private use is minimal.
They have so many empty offices and warehouses. Hardly a freight forwarder at the airport.
On the plus sisde they've opened the spectator gallery! You can view FR pax boarding! But as most freighters come in the middle of night you won't see 74's.
Maybe if NZ win world cup they may donate it to someone?
