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Old 9th Nov 2014, 14:03
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willy wombat
 
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One thing that I think is clear is that it cannot be economical to open and run (heat, maintain, staff etc) the existing terminal for sometimes as little as one flight a day. Commercially orientated management (without the State as a back up) should by now have taken the fight back to Ryanair and made it clear that the airport was not run for FR's convenience and that they were not prepared to open the terminal for one flight a day and that Ryanair had to run a "reasonable" program or nothing at all.If the answer was "nothing at all" then at least the management could look at what costs could be saved by mothballing the terminal and concentrating on other activities. I have no desire to see the demise of Prestwick but continuing to keep that terminal, designed for transatlantic flights in the 60s, open for a handful of FR flights doesn't make sense. Only if I see some action being taken to seriously reduce costs in that area will I start to believe that the management team has got some commercial nous.
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