PR to MAN that would be wishful thinking,
PR have no flights to Europe and the firsts ports of call would be London and Rome. However MNL has a similar problem to Manchester with a massive cheap fares uplift by Eithad, Gulf and Emirates from Manila with onward connections from the Gulf to Europe. This has taken away direct European carriers such as BA and LH who pulled out years ago. Only KLM do the big hop with a 14 hour B777 flight. However unlike Manchester traffic is growing fast, now 26m (up 11% in 2009) and all from mainly a single runway operation (yes I know there is a crosswind)!.