Few good flights in over the past and next few days.
Firstly Virgin used an A340-600 from New York for a charter on Saturday.
Jetair fly of Belgium had their whole long haul fleet at MAN, with one B767 based and the other operating cruise charters to Venice.
An Etihad flight from Chicago to Abu Dhabi diverted in this morning due to a Medical emergency. Aircraft was B777-300ER.
Aegean started their new 2 weekly Athens flight on Saturday, strengthening the Star Alliance presence at MAN.
Freebird started the first of their 4 new summer destinations on Friday.
Egyptair start their new 5 weekly Cairo flights this week, another Star Alliance carrier to the MAN fold.
TAP Portugal increase their flights to Lisbon. Flights are now 10 weekly using larger A320 and A321 aircraft. Yet another star alliance increase.
Antonov design bureau AN124 (beast of an aircraft) are also using MAN as a fuel and pilot rest stop again, the first arriving this evening and departing tomorrow.
American Airlines switch the much larger B767-300 on the Chicago flight in the next week.
Delta have switched to the A330-200 this weekend too, with the larger A330-300 already being used.
Lastly BA citiflyer have run a few flights this weekend to various destinations. All are a one off basis apart from MAN-Olbia which runs all summer every Saturday.
Not a bad little period at MAN