But surely stand space is limited at any airport. MAN is rather hemmed in by motorways and housing estates, with a rather hostile Council on another border and the now disposed of Airport City on another.There are possibilities- build over the AVP, demolish the hangars - to build more remote stands and those options would not be too expensive. Part of your answer, however, may lie in the deployment of larger aircraft. Encourage EZY to base A321 rather than A319. Price out ATR and 145. The latter may be sacrilege to domestic connection supporters, but times have changed.