MAN is the one airport that regularly showed a monthly drop in traffic when other airports were all growing (this is prior to the current downturn).
MAN is now showing one of the biggest reductions in traffic month by month...
This has not been due to the state of the economy, it has been a long term problem... anyone any ideas why this is if MAN is 'so much better' than other regionals???
Far from being a white elephant, Stansted was showing some of the strongest growth amongst the 'big' london airports (Southampton, Farnborough and LCY by far outstripping it)