surrounded by the UKs 5 largest cities, it has thee best road and rail connections , it has better connectivity to the rest of the UK in terms of domestic air feed than LHR and LGW and as pointed out has capacity, if this was Germany they would come up with a methodology to capitalise on those benefits because they think differently, I defy anybody to suggest otherwise,
All excellent points and I won't argue. The German state is not nearly as skewed to one over inflated rich mans property bubble however. Manchester suffers only in it's proximity to London which means it is often overlooked. In terms of US Pre-clearance, it would only make sense in having it in Terminal 2 with American moving back over, this is why they don't have it at LHR as US flights depart from numerous terminals.
Manchester is at the epicentre of the UK
This bit's misleading.....
In terms of delays, the taxiway layout remains decidely sub optimal, especially in terms of getting to and from T2, coupled with the fact that on departures, too much of the traffic is going the same way to make the most use of runway capacity.