The thing that I cant get my head around is this...
We all hear airline know it alls on this site forever bang on about how there are no high yeild passengers out of MAN (or anywhere else North of the Watford Gap for that matter). Well lets expand it a bit and say the Northwest in general.... Let me ask you this.
What choice do high yield pax have out of MAN?
Oh yeah, that's right, take away BA's JFK and BD's ORD (Antigua, Vegas and Barbados are leisure routes), and what are you left with? That's right, either a trip to LHR, CDG or AMS.... Perhaps if the airport got off their arse and quit charging airlines through the nose and started attracting proper scheduled carriers to the airport. You know, ones that actually offer the same level of services as London Deathrow, then perhaps, just mabey, us silly Northerners might actually BUY said services, because many of us BUY the same services from other airports!