The TAM flight was just a system test. The airport has a habit of using exotic airlines and routes to test its boards (QF to Sydney being their most popular)
Laurie Berryman talking about the 2nd A380 into MAN and being 'only a matter of time' in the MEN.
Also interesting is that over 1 million kg of cargo is also carried every month at MAN so surely a 2nd A380 would mean a cargo flight too, running out of other B777's in the UK to ship the cargo to.....