Plane 'Stupid', a very appropriate name for them! What do they hope to achieve? The majority of people flying out of MAN this morning will be there by choice and are therefore not going to be put off flying by a load of jobless morons! If anything, their presence will have a negative effect as they've been delaying passengers getting through security which is bound to annoy most people.
On the subject of Liverpool, it now serves 19 destinations not served by MAN does it. So what? How many destinations do MAN serve that LPL doesn't? I agree that MAN seriously needs routes to Madrid, Geneva, Berlin etc but Liverpool is purely a low cost base and therefore its route structure is bound to be different.
Why is it that Manchester and Liverpool are seen to be in competition with one another? From a management point of view, the growth of LPL is worrying for the top dogs at MAN but from a passenger point of view, surely it's good news. Fact of the matter is, people of the north west can only gain from the fact that we now have a greater choice of airports to fly from. If a route is not available from MAN, then it may well be available down the road at LPL and vice versa. This has got to be better option than transiting through the mess that is London!