Hopefully the first step from flybe will be to make the service daily for the summer season. I don't think there is a possibility of them putting a jet on the route any time soon. Four weekly on the Dash 8 seems to be enough for the winter months, but if they are going to take on Ryanair at Liverpool they will need more than that from March to October. Liverpool is daily all year round now and seems to be going from strength to strength and the weak competition to Knock from the north of England this winter will only re-enforce this.
It doesn't look like there will be much charter action at Knock next year, it has been mentioned that Europe Airpost to Faro might not be back and according to another thread on this site Dubrovnik Airlines has gone bust. That would just leave Lanzarote as the only sun charter unless something new is announced. I think there might be potential for sun destinations that the scheduled operators don't go to, like Cyprus, Greece or the Balearics. It would be a pity to see Ryanair gain a monopoly on sun routes from Knock.
The timetable looks a bit bare now for the winter compared to what we've been used to in the last six months, just six departures tomorrow and five on Tuesday, with nothing going any further than London either day.
Leeds/Bradford is still showing on the Ryanair website with crossed out planes for next summer, similar to Alicante and Reus. Maybe they are thinking of bringing it back seasonally like they did with Bristol, the loads might just about be good enough in the summer months to justify retaining it together with having the benifit of putting some additional pressure on flybe at Manchester.
Flybe's Edinburgh flights have gotten very expensive all of a sudden, it looks like they might be planning on taking full advantage of the closure of the Galway route by hiking up their prices as much as they can get away with. Flybe's prices on routes where they have no competition tend to be on the high side.