Honest Man, honestly !!!
If there is an an agenda it certainly not anti PIK and not by Skippy.
A number of your fellow Scot's have an agenda, which is to stick your head in the sand over the continuing negative profitability of your local airport, there is no anti PIK agenda, just a realism that you and wind sock/SLF seem to have let go of! you are clutching at straws of every aircraft movement.
The situation at PIK is very different to CWL, in the latter case it is the only functioning commercial airport is South Wales and it is vital to have air links for inward investment, meanwhile no such argument is valid for the tax payer to underwrite losses at PIK on an open ended time scale.
Scotland's central belt has 3 airports covering a range of services across Europe, the middle East and the USA, one of those airports PIK has just one scheduled passenger airline Ryanair, who of course also fly from EDI and look likely to do the same from GLA at some stage in the future.
Yes PIK do handle aircraft doing circuit work, but airlines choose to do it at PIK for the same reason that the Army do mock battle in remote area's, because there's no other ****** there !! its also a long runway, often fair weather, but it will last a few weeks and not happen at all if the cloud base is low, this type of income is neither reliable or regular, welcome though it must be.
What PIK needs is regular scheduled services or charter, bums on seats that pay car parking, drink in the airport bar and restaurants (if they still exist ?) the reality is that unless you live in that part of Ayrshire why would you want to travel to PIK with all the other choices available, Ryanair are there because its cheap no other reason.
The political dimension is not just about poking fun over independence ( i agree with other's that most English are not interested, but are getting fed up with the demands for special treatment ) the politic's is that this a loss making publicly owned company, you can moan all you like about the previous owners, but just like the Teesside thread there is little that you can do without flights to turn around a business, the big difference with Teesside is that it appears that Peel have a plan, but it seems to involve parking houses on the runway not aircraft.
So before you start "calling" people such as Skippy, just pause a moment and ask what you would do to turn PIk around if you were in charge and it was your money, which by the way some of it is, but mine also, but unless you have a good answer I would get off your soap box and onto your bike to find work, PIK will close sooner or later, that is sad and unfortunate, but if it didn't exist no one would say Hey, let's blow a **** load of public cash to build an airport that no one want's to fly from...........................