Hello MON, Goodbye Delta JFK.
Monarch are using the pier stands with airbridges, but inevitably there will be some remotes at peak times. T2 apron was reconfigured last year and suits the MON fleet really well. Two of the multiple-choice ('MARS') stand blocks can take an A300-600 with an A320/321 beside it - that's what, 581 seats on one block!
A quick play on the Delta website does sadly look like the JFK will not return next year. If so it will be the second time DL has run this route and stopped it after not a long time. I think JFK is still not so popular for connecting onward within the USA. That, or AA have convinced them that 'this town ain't big enough for the both of us'. And with United switching one of their MAN-EWR flights to IAD next year, we're down to two Big Apples a day, from four.
As I have said on other UK regional airport threads - forget ambitions to get a NYC route. If MAN can't hold on to them smaller regionals don't have an earthly.