So sorry
This is very sad for Manchester. We all knew (even us who upped everything and moved north to do MAN/IAD in 2001) Manchester was second choice - but we thought a happy one. I have worked with many brilliant AND HARD WORKING people on the A330s to ORD, IAD (and remember Toronto? Fantastic!) etc and feel very sad for them because they must feel this as a big slap in the face.
I hope now many of them will feel they can move down to London and be treated fairly if they can't.