Cannot understand LS. They said last winter that they are looking at seriously increasing their flights from MAN and increasing aircraft to 12/13 aircraft!
If they are to reduce services, we really do need U2 or FR. I can understand what people say about the major locos forcing other carriers off of routes and they are not money makers for the airport but MAN is going to fall behind if they don't keep up with the market.
When the airport get their terminals sorted and get the loco terminal up and running (when is this anyway?) they should be able to attract more airlines from across the world.
Obviously we want to see AirAsiaX, Oasis Hong Kong, Cathy Pacific, Air China and Northwest which all seem to be interested in MAN (over the next two years) but the airport also has to look at it's EU network. They may have more destinations that everyone but two airports on the planet but they certainly don't have an excellent scheduled network on the short-haul routes!
U2...MAN calling!