Not intended to cause offence Skippy, but as you will probably aware from being darn London, some locals down there regard anyone coming from north of Watford as coming from another world....
Speaking as a Scot, that's not really true, and it's perpetuated by Northerners and Scots who love playing the underdog.
London's way too international to care frankly nowadays. OK so we have a number of bilaterals, the missing bit is some realism. I actually do not think there is any realistic profitable route from MAN with the exception maybe of China that's prevented by a bilateral treaty. IS there really anything else major that's likely in the medium term? I ask as a genuine supporter of the airport btw