I flew out of MAN T1 earlier this week. Checkin (Jet2) and security were fast and efficient despite the long queues, which moved fast and were well controlled.
Then the horrible walk through the shopping mall to get to the departure area. This really annoys me, I am not interested in buying 'duty free' (which isn't) and resent having to force my way through a maze of perfume, fags, booze and Toblerone whilst being held up by fat people with huge baskets blocking my way and sales people waving stuff in my face in a misguided attempt to buy stuff I don't want.
Unless I've missed something, there isn't a 'direct' route to get to the departure gates without being subjected to the 'in your face' shopping mall experience. There should be. This applies to many other airports but MAN appeared worse in this respect than many others.
Apart from that, a good airport experience.