Making impetuous remarks such as “passenger operations will never close” and presenting them as “fact” is somewhat naive. For a start, it is obviously not a fact under any definition of the word, if HAH Glasgow and RYR shake hands today there is next to nothing anyone at EGPK can do to stop RYR moving lock, stock and barrel to EGPF.
As I’ve said before RYR are moving into the business of serving more mainstream airports and providing far greater business friendly routes, frequencies and flight times. Shifting from EGPK to EGPF fits with RYR’s new business plan, pan Europe, so why would they as a business treat a tiny corner on the fridges of Europe, which is Scotland, differently from everywhere else?
MYT consolidated all Scottish flights and moved everything it had from EGPK to EGPF, REA moved its EGPK flights to EGPF and has since reaped the rewards, and more recently WZZ moved its four weekly Polish flights from EGPK to EGPF. It just takes one more airline to follow these three recent examples and suddenly you have the reality of EGPK being closed to passenger operations.
I’ve worked in this industry long enough to know what might be “fact” on Monday can be “history” by Tuesday.