philbky - the Jet2 split load flights operating across MAN/LBA are ski flights to Geneva and Chambery and reflect the weak ski-market from BOTH sides of the pennines on off-peak periods. Most of the split load flights are the Geneva services which originate in MAN and pick up pax in LBA. I appreciate you have a downer on anywhere that isn't MAN, but you'll need to find a better example than that