The only 2 low cost airlines are Ryanair and easyjet? I'm sorry but I totally disagree. They may be the highest profile LCC's in Europe but there are plenty of others. Jet2 and bmibaby for starters. If they're not low cost, then what are they? Agreed that Monarch and Thomson are traditional charter airlines but both have low cost scheduled arms and these flights (ZB in particular) are not sold to package holiday passengers, 100% of the load is made up of flight only passengers booking on the internet. What does it matter which aircraft these carriers use or where they fly to, the fact of the matter is you can log onto the Monarch or Thomsonfly websites and get a flight only fare to AGP or ALC or wherever for often a far better price than EZY is offering down the road at LPL.
I personally would love to see either FR or EZY (or both!) at MAN but to say we don't have any LCC's is simply not true.