I suppose the salient fact is that Sutton Holdings owns Plymouth Airport and presumably would prefer to run their own services from it.
I would surmise that this story will run for a bit longer before a final decision is made public.
If, and a big if, Sutton Holdings gets the airline operating and manages to fly extra routes from PLH to the likes of, say Amsterdam and Brussels, how will this affect the rumoured services to be starting from EXT by VLM and Flybe?
And can PLH really be viable in the long term given that it is ever only likely to be able to fly medium sized turbo props?