The comparisons between LIV and MAN are well made.....
Two totally different business models, Liverpool had/has nothing to lose by charging zero landing fees, they had no traffic when EZY started, so presumably their business model is "still" possibly based on that !
Zero landing fees with revenue generated from other means.....
That said I am a bit lost on the CAA guidleines who I thought laid down "minimum commercial" rates ?
Manchester had an established framework and there was no way they could simply restructure their landing fees across the board ....
....despite the current Airport Mangement being totally inept, on this point their hands were tied.
That said there were loco's who were not quite as "strident" as RYR who could perhaps have been encouraged sooner rather than later.... !