Given the explosion of new services at Manchester why oh why were MAG not more vociferous in terms of supporting Manchester at The Davies commission.
Re MAG i don't get the unequivocal strategic support of Stansted compared to the lukewarm support of Manchester.
They paid £1.5 billion for access to the world's busiest city airport system by passenger traffic. A few months later an opportunity comes along to contribute to a govt led commission on capacity in that airport system and you 'don't get' why they talked more about Stansted in this discussion.
Probably the clue here is that Stansted is part of the London city airport system (135 million passengers each year) and Manchester (20 million) is not.