I thought the TOM "increases" at MAN are just a smoke and mirrors exercise where they start selling seat-only on charter services.
It's also innevitable the expansion from Jet2 at LBA and BLK will have some impact on MAN because before people from these areas used MAN when there wasn't choice from their own local airport. I had been told that overall passenger numbers to places Malaga, Alicante from MAN are no different now to the late 90s which bucks the trend of huge growth at a national level.
Let's hope Jet2 get into Larnaca, Paphos, Las Palmas with the 757s soon from LBA because - other than Florida, that is where the biggest charter markets at MAN are to attack.
loco