Well if this announcement is what I'm expecting and that is a based LCC then this would be first step to rectifying issues that have perhaps not warranted the motivation to sort out in the past.
Now the bread and butter market that has propped up the airport for so along is flatlining - the new owners must be panicking slightly that their investment is in danger of being pissed up the wall?
Jet2/EZY will be getting very good deals offered to them right now in any discussions.
Surely.