........the management may be forgiven for wondering if they might have spent a little more time and effort tub thumping the case for the ‘home’ airport at Manchester, which already has two runways, oodles of spare capacity and the sort of traffic mix that many other airport operators can only dream of !
I'm still not clear what case they should have made. The capacity is in place so the only angle I think they could have looked to play is to persuade Davies to investigate options to artificially distort the market. This is not an attractive option as far as the 'home airport' is concerned because MAN has more to loose from market distortion than it stands to gain. I'm pretty sure it's in the "don't even go there" box which means there's not a lot else left to say to Mr Davies in respect of MAN.