MAN has room for improvement
Again many of the issues are not of the airports making but rather political dictates made on high and imposed without reference to existing infrastructure.
Isolation of arriving and departing passengers within piers - Totally unnecessary being one of them.
Visible increases at border and as said before checking of all Eu/EEA passport/id cards - Pointless waste of resources.
Land side road access restrictions largely knee-jerk political we have to be seen to do something action after the GLA incident.
As for the car hire issue at Manchester its certainly an annoyance however not unique to Manchester - Plenty other places have you go collect at distant parking lots
The railway service and Manchester Piccadilly issue i have some sympathy with LN-KGL on.
The MSJ &A line (Platform 13/14) was never intended for through regional and indeed intercity traffic volumes it currently receives whilst many of the terminal platforms are under utilised.
Adding to the station confusion the need for reversals and crossings of Yorkshire bound/arriving train services.
These historically routed through Victoria and will do again in the future
All this should be eased with the Northern Hub project and the curve over at Salford.
Ex Airport through the service frequency and range of direct services remains pretty extensive.
"Things can only get better"