Am I not true LAX-LHR? The FlightStats reports may offer both an explanation and also hope for better times. In November only 64.0% of the flights departing from MAN was on-time (on-time = before schedule to 15 minutes after schedule) and this month MAN ended up on 31st place among the 35 largest European airports. Best airport in November was Hamburg (HAM) with a punctuality of 90.7%. MAN had 23.7% of its departures in the "late" bracket (more than 15 minutes and less than 30 minutes). I would say a very large share of these "late" could easily have been moved inside the "on-time" bracket had all parties and facilities at MAN performed as they should do. I don't want to point at any single source to this low performance, but clearly every party at MAN has to improve to make MAN more attractive for its customers (passengers and airlines).