I find that it is truly amazing that with such poor growth figures such as these, that during the last restructure, the management felt that the best way to encourage growth was to reduce the sales team to a grand total of two. Not only to cover Mancesheter, but the whole of the group! Perhaps the rumours that Manchester intends to get as much as possible out of the existing facilities and then flog the place are true? When one reads their recently published Developement Plan to 2015, it says very little about any actual developments and contains a plan showing development areas of such a large scale to be meaningless. It seems that the airport is losing its sense of direction in a very competetive environment and I'm afraid that the figures which show positive growth (just) will swing to negative in the future.