Great shame, although the terminal was a bit awkward to find, it was well appointed and spot on for a small regional airport with a handful of commercial flights. The challenge though was making any money out of the commercial activity. It costs too much for the staff and the terminal for so little throughput and so much on marketing and sharing some of the pain (or risk) with the airlines. However, when Stansted airport is just 29 minutes away by train and Luton not so far away, nothing but niche services make sense, but those are unsustainable with such a small catchment population. The holiday charters make sense to Jersey and skiing in the winter for example but only if your staff used for handling and promoting those operations are doing something else most of the time. I guess it's back to shipping Sheikh Mo's horses then, could turn the terminal into stables....