Biggest non event of the year so far.
It's an A320 with a different engine - end of.
A320 NEOs have been flying in and out of MAN for months, if not longer. Almost as bad as Ryanair getting free publicity out of nothing.
A320 NEOs have been flying for over 2 years with Lufthansa.
Are we to have a press conference every time a new variant of an old design turns up?
The Dreamliner did indeed enjoy a lot of publicity- but not for it's environmental reasons.
A more newsworthy story would be the reason why so many "Dreamliners" are currently parked up engineless.
With EZY's current focus on the TXL takeover of Air Berlin routes it's not surprising UK expansion is limited. If there is expansion for S18 at MAN why would you not utilise the conference you just arranged? I suspect there is some backtracking going on at Orange HQ.