God help us Lexoncd if you ran the airport as there would be no staff
staying to work for it, it is you who need the chill pill and get off your high horse.
Gatwick is a very different beast than MAN as is LHR and too an extent
recession proof, but even their market has changed with Easyjet now taking the lions share whereas MAN has actually got fingers in a lot of pies and not reliant on just one. The recession actually cost Manchester
4.5 million passengers most of which were holiday makers which has taken 8 years to claw back but the burden of apd which also happens
to effect holidays more than business so it has been a double edged sword. How many airports have actually gone out of business or are struggling to survive, I can think of 3 shut and at least 5 that may not be open in a couple of years.