Chaps 2011.
Yes agree think all the airports including MAN and BHX are cut to the bone. BHX main problem at present is that we have 9 stored Ryan Air 737s blocking out a lot of our remotes.
There was no room for any more divs after the ones we took. The day before we did take 12 ,including an LH from LHR and 8 Ryan Air from STN..where they parked them, no idea ?
I am sure that Manchester will sort things out and go back to being a main wide bodied div airport again.
Although as someone else said ,far fewer divert now than a few years ago, and most that morning were able to hold for over an hour in the London stacks,where a few years ago they would have diverted after 30-45 mins.
Nigel