MME is not by any means doomed, there are one million passengers who were flying from MME in 2006 and one million passengers are still here and one million passengers or more still want to fly from MME if they could.
I've said it before, but it is VERY feasible and isn't too much to ask for a seasonal one-aircraft base from the likes of TCX or TOM and 850k+ pax per year.
Even if there was zero potential for the terminal, there is infinite other possibilities on the GA side of things, Newcastle have little or nothing and despite Leeds having Multiflight they don't really do air taxi / private charter so you've got to go to either Edinburgh or Manchester. Then there's the potential for aircraft storage etc. If MME closes it will be down to conspiracy / incompetence and nothing else.