First of all , well done Manchester for getting yet more services and I think it's fair to say the Airport has been caught out by the leap in growth over the past 12 months as they thought some of the traffic proposing to come in was speculative ,only , it turned out that is wasn't ! But the traffic is here and is expected to stay and expand. More services are on the cards with the hot rumours being Air China to Beijing ,China Airlines (pax) TPE-BKK-MAN, a 2nd daily COA Newark service and that Virgin will increase their presence at MAN with upto 4 a/c serving various longhaul destinations.
So, a new taxiway to serve Pier C T1 and all of T2 is a must in order to stop the the daily bottlenecks. More stands please and asap , I hear that last Sunday the AAL BOS arrived and had to wait 1h15m for his stand ! I was somewhat surprised at the JET2 announcement as only the other week ATC were alledgedly against any major expansion for S05 unless they received assurances that the airfield infrastructure would be upgraded to cope.
Longterm , the Airport does have plans to extend T2 and T3 , Males Garage and the Catering unit are apparently to go and the T3 terminal and stands will expand parrallel with 24R . T2 will see an extension to western end. But as for next summer......here's to a busy one
brgds
TCM