Seems recently the general rule for diversions now is BHX can accept two 77W/A330/747, up to five B767 size types, and numerous 737/A320 ,all at the same time, so they do have a limit of sorts.
Do MAN not have a similar plan on what they can accept, might save some confusion ?
Certainly used to do that in days gone by - can't remember the numbers now but it got the ball rolling and later diversion requests were considered on an individual basis. If I remember correctly there was an airport-wide diversion plan which was updated every September or thereabouts. And of course the "diversion control", an airport wide co-ordination team was brought into play with this type of event.
Looking at what has been reported here over the events of Friday, I'm presuming none of this happens now. It would seem that there were a lot of inconsistencies in messages being sent out if what is reported on here is true. That's not good.
And as has been reported, there no longer seems to be an incentive of any kind to go the extra mile to sort things out. Sad but there you go.
