Originally Posted by
MANFOD
That was the number in the initial ACL report based on slot requests, which would be an increase from 12 based. As far as I'm aware, there has not been an update since so we don't know what slots have been returned. Personally, I doubt very much there will be 19 based, in part because I believe a few slots were not able to be allocated and some others were well outside the times requested, but also because I'd be surprised if Ryanair really intended to jump from 12 to 19 based in one go anyway. Maybe a declaration of intent for the future.
Traditionally, Ryanair have also had a not insignificant number of flights with non-based aircraft which has helped MAN with the constraints on T3 capacity - in the terminal not just parking stands.
I would like to think we'll see 15 based, still a decent increase, but I imagine we should know shortly.