don't forget the impact of the weather in January which led to cancelled services - passengers may not have been rebooked onto those MAN services that did run. Might not have amounted to much, but still it wouldn't help with the stats.
If we summarise what's happening this summer:
PIA an extra service to Islambad at the expense of LBA
CSA reintroduce Prague 6 weekly
easyJet new services to Sharm el Sheik, Zurich nad Mahon
Air Baltic to Vilnius and Riga
American to JFK daily
DL back on JFK daily
Flybe new Bournemouth service (and the French regional routes reintroduced)
Aer Arann reintroduce 4 weekly to Kerry, 6 weekly (or is it daily?) to Londonderry
Etihad go to 77W from June
Emirates expected to introduce A380 from sept
Singapore Airlines restore to 5 weekly with B773 with F class (that for reasons best known to themselves don't appear to want MAN pax to book it?!)
bmibaby: drop Cork, add Lourdes
lufthansa: add Stuttgart
Other route in the pipeline is Biman's 2 weekly Dhaka-MAN-JFK service.
So it's not going to be that bad a summer performance.