FR will only be basing 7 aircraft and STR is able to operate within those 7 aircraft.
I think this has left some of us confused. It's been said on here it could be 9 based and on another forum that it's definitely 9 and could be 10. Unless a lot of flights have been switched from based a/c to non-based compared to this summer, the difference is significant in terms of capacity. Whether MAN could cope with 9 based is a separate issue.
The real test for measuring net growth by Ryanair will be the number of weekly departures in peak season 2015 compared to this year. Does anyone have this information as it stands and are changes still being made to the schedules?