Well done to all!
A great day for MA, EK and all the many, many individuals and companies (NATS, Swissport, Costain, Jetway etc etc) who have been involved in this project. As someone with a connection - but not major - into the delivery of this project, I don't think that the majority of posters on here have any inkling of what it took to get one A380 onto stand 12 today.
I just wonder what Willie Walsh, CX of Heathrow Airways makes of another few hundred northerners proving to him that, yet again, long-haul from MAN is a very, very, viable proposition.