Also worth noting a HiFly A345 positioned in last night to work a TUI flight, that was another stand taken. Then you consider MAN has a number of stands U/S due to the construction, and a taxiway OOA for rebuilding works, I see no reason to grumble about the past few days, they did a bloody good job!
With all the reasons not to accept, I'm actually amazed what MAN did yesterday.
Massive respect!
The NOTAM was perfectly the correct thing to do and forced others to accept ie the 0300 BGI-BHX Thomson went to LGW.