Rather belatedly I have seeen the May issue of Plane Talk from Manchester today.
It proudly shows the 100,000 passenger for Jet2 in it's first four months at Manchester. This doesn't seem a ba number in that period of time considering they didn't launch the bulk of their routes till towards the end of that 4 month period.
Seems to me rumours of Jets's failure at manchester may be slightly exagerated.
(Before anyone says it I know it's yield not numbers that matters, however I would have thought that in the early days getting bums on seats was important).