Interesting post Sawtooth, just shows the animosity that remains towards Aer Arann at Knock. Although this is different to the PSO in that if they 'don't send the plane' this time, the passengers will have some job on their hands getting to Birmingham. I think, in an ideal world, you'd like to tell RE to go do one and stay away from Knock but they're coming back and without an airport up the road at Galway to pre-occupy them, you can only hope they'll do better this time. However, if they become another flyglobespan, or we get a repeat of the PSO shambles, maybe someone else will compete with them on the route and do a better job. Otherwise Ryanair will clean up on their EMA route.