I just don't understand this purchase. Like Skippy says, it will be a distraction & the MAN focus will be lost.
Why anyone would buy an ailing airport dominated by one carrier I don't know.
The City council will also have lost their majority stake in MAN & the other councils will no doubt have their airport income reduced.
Surely this is the thin end of the wedge where MAN itself is eventually put up for sale & the MAG only connection with MAN will be the name.
If only the time, effort & resource had been ploughed into MAN instead of this folly.