"PIK in the other hand is currently a political hot cake and with MP's all over it trying to get re-elected next year"
I would disagree with that now. They can quietly do what the like with it now and unfortunately it will be the poor local economy that has to pick up the pieces (from a passenger operating going concern). Whether they can cobble together another long term role for the field is another story, but it is but now an indistinguishable blip on the political radar, there are far bigger fish to fry.