I think there are very few parking spaces available at MAN at the moment to except diversions. But, I expect the airport to make very little effort to help anyway, as we all remember the debacle over the winter months in not accepting diversions.
What was interesting walking through T1 and T2 yesterday about 12:00 was that the info screens were saying 'next info at 13:00' - even though at the time, it was known by all Ops agents at the airport that restrictions were in place until 18:00 at the earliest. One would assume it's good for the airport shopping tills to give people false hope
BTW, does anybody know how many BA aircraft are stuck on the other side of the pond roughly ??