Interestingly and surprisingly in the press release, seems Ryanair have somewhat bigger plans in the future for MAN, especially surprising considering relations between them and the airport have been notoriously icy in the past:
"RYANAIR was the latest budget airline to unveil major expansion plans at Manchester Airport when it announced services to the cities of Milan, Marseille, Girona in Spain and Bremen in Germany would start next year.
The Irish carrier will operate a total of 12 services a week to those destinations initially.
It hopes to add four more Manchester routes by June and a further four by summer 2009."
Stoney