Yourself and other who actively post on this particular thread saying how you crave Easyjet to make MAN a big base like gatwick, the other carriers you refer to are not exactly the flagship low cost boys are they BMI baby and Mytravel lite are hardly re -writing the rule book..... my point is that MAPLC craves a low co like ryanair or EZY who will fill there a/c 85% of the time not these wannabies that are slowly re-treating back to their charter backgrounds. As for ryanair 4 times a day to dub hardly classifies it as a big base does it?
MAN needs to get its act together and decide where its future lies... chasing A380 dreams and the long haul market or diversifying properly and offering a compotent low cost facility to compliment what it already has. At the moment it seems stuck in the middle.
Cant see that JET 2 will be too happy when all the summer congestioon comes, we will wait and see. How are they getting on by the way are there loads good, i know its early days but its good to get an idea!