MAN traffic trends
The rolling pax figure graphs at post #2144 make interesting reading. What we can see is that the steep decline in domestic traffic looks to have reached a natural base level now and is unlikely to decline much further. The effect of better rail service is now embedded and the only factor which might impact is transfer of international traffic away from connecting over London, choosing to connect at an overseas hub instead. This loss (segment transfer) might be offset to some extent by UK traffic connecting over MAN's increasing choices of route / carrier / frequency to major hubs.
Charter decline has flattened out, but if it continues it is likely to transfer to alternative loco flights, which are increasingly available at MAN, rather than leaking to LPL, LBA etc.
Full service 'legacy' flag carriers are not dead, and MAN is their most likely UK port of call once London opportunities have been exhausted. As well as TAP, I think we'll see a few more once-familiar tails back on the the apron before long.