Bagso - you are someone who has taken up plenty of bandwidth on here talking about things as inane as whether Manchester is a regional city or a provincial city or some such nonsense. It doesn't need much second guessing to work out that your posts are more fanboy than they are airline or airport manager.
Pehaps if you'd read airport management for dummies, you'd know that just like the airlines, passenger yield is just as important as volume. So tell me, is it better for MAN to have 18m passengers at £10 per pax profit or 25m passengers at £5 per pax profit.