Its not about people who prefer to use MAN, the fact that MAN has so much departures then LBA and often at competitive prices, people can not afford to spend a lot of money on flights from there local airport and usually choose the cheapest, in my case this year I am flying from LPL, MAN & LBA and LBA is the closest, I much rather use LBA however there wasn't convenient flights at the times and dates I wanted, so its not about which is easiest.