MANFOD.
I don't understand where all your wide bodied stands have gone at MAN..ok you have a couple of TOM 787, but similar number of TCX and MON A330s as few years ago. MON A300s gone (1 now at BHX) A few extra sched 330/77W .
However you used to get SQ,QF,SAA,Cathay,BA 747s and lots of other widebodies ,and still be able to handle 15-20 widebodied diverts ?
I really do not know about the staff in Brum. However BHX seems to have a totally different approach to diverts than a few years ago, when they would turn them away.
BHX sees them now as a revenue stream now, and will accept as many as it can get in.
Suppose the fact that its closer to LHR than MAN may help some as if they have to get passengers off and bus them to London we are 90 miles nearer ?.
Nigel