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.
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.
Or to put it another way, because the lack of capacity that the Airports Commission is loking at is in the southeast, not the northwest.