I can only salute
Shed-on-a-Pole's eloquence and agree 100%.
IIRC Ryanair's fleet size is actually static or shrinking slightly over the next season or two until the next deliveries start. They will therefore be playing current and wannabee destination airports off each other even more aggressively (sorry, I mean "abruptly"
) than before. Moreover, they have recently signed a major expansion agreement with MAG which will see their additional UK capacity growth centred on STN.
Given their (understandable) hostility to UK APD, it is hard to see a compelling case for them to base any further capacity in the UK as opposed to some other European market.
And that's even before thinking about whether there's a specific market in DSA or HUY, or (more relevant) whether the airport operators, tourist authorities and local councils are prepared to cough up substantial sums of incentive cash to facilitate the resulting stream of outbound leisure passengers (because sorry, the traffic on any such flights will be predominantly outbound).
Do you think if we as passengers asked he would consider basing a few at Dsa or a couple at Huy.
So with a half empty airport. Huge runway and Scope for expansion. Whats he waiting for
There are airports which are half (or more) empty, with huge runways and scope for expansion, all over Europe. The answer to your second question is very simple: he is waiting for a large quantum of financial support. If you as passengers attached a cheque for a million or two a year, payable to Airport Marketing Services, to your request, you might get your base (and some jolly-good-value marketing links on the Ryanair website too). Otherwise, the answer to your first question is
here.