Bagso, MAN is bigger and busier its also had way more investment and better management! I would never compare BHX to MAN as I know having worked at both on the ground and in the air BHX is far superior to operate from! Staff West at MAN is enough to put anyone off!!
I wish both would do well! If only this backward country could look outside of London maybe the country would be Great again! But while Westminster runs the country in the same way as Willie runs our national airline then sadly nothing outside the M25 matters!! Be interesting to see what happens if the high speed rail link happens, BHX may pick up LHR expansion traffic but it may be at the cost of domestic air traffic? Who knows I wonder how different BHX or MAN will be ten years on from now? I remember both from ten years ago and although both quite different, MAN is more different!