Runway,
Fair comment and whilst I agre with your sentiments and your ideology i'm afraid if Manchester and any other airport in the UK, apart from LON airports cannot sustain UK-US routes I don't think it's realistic to think that LBA can suddenly become the next big thing for new routes. I'm really happy to see Ryanair putting some headlines LBA's way but I think realistically any long haul aint gonna happen.....lastly please dont resort to regionalism, i straddle both fences and am proud of both where i'm from and where I live and what i do (Seniorish Manager in a leading airline)
Cheers
Beach