OltonPete & Harer92 you are both right about the delays at the moment. Quite a few aircraft are going tech now and then.
Regarding what Harer92 said about load factor at MAN, Monarch are certainly doing well on pretty much all the routes, all flights are either full or have about 5 seats free.
The Italian routes do seem to be fluctuating in terms of passengers. One day we had over 150 on the Milan Malpensa flight but only about 40 on the Verona and they ended up putting all the Verona passengers on the Milan flight. Yesterday when I was in work, we had 121 on the Verona flight and only 31 on the Milan flight, they seem to be changing by the day but lets hope these new routes really pick up soon. Apart from that, the rest of the network out of MAN is doing fine.