The baggage handling at terminal 2 must be about the worst in the world. it took over 45 minutes from my flight docking to recover my suitcase from the carousel, when there was only one other carousel running, and therefore flight, to handle. This is terrible service. I am an infrequent traveller at Manchester, but each time I have used terminal 2 the level of service has been the same.
Where did you arrive from? What airline? What aircraft?
The other carousel could have been used by another airline served by different handling agents..? There are so many factors that could add up to the reasoning for this. Ok, I agree I feel it should be atleast a little faster, but personally I have never waited more than 30 minutes after arriving on-stand in T2 to retrieve luggage, or atleast for the luggage from the flight to start coming around the carousel.