Last year my company chartered one of those wonderful airplanes because one of his A330s catched a cold (or something like that). Sadly the passengers refused to board the L1011 because they deemed it to old and therefore unsafe... (no refunds were given).
Well, thats thoroughly off topic by now but more on topic, hand flown approaches are much more fun than keeping the automatics in so i do it as often as i can. Allways have to observe the present workload and the status of your other crewmembers of course.