Manston could be a successful regional airport with a modest freight operation as they've handled in the recent past, something along the lines of 2/3 x daily to AMS with KLM on a small jet, 1x daily to DUB with EIR and Thomson doing a couple of flights a week to Palma/Ibiza/Tenerife plus training, maintenance and GA. The problem is the returns from that sort of activity wouldn't justify the costs associated with purchasing the site and getting it up and running again.