Each month a 'table' giving the best performing ports, there are 95, within CX, is published, I'm not sure of all the criteria but it includes, OTP, passenger services, load factors etc, for February of those 95 CX stations Manchester was 4th! I'm told the load factor was 90% but that is only one part of it (3rd placed only had a 50% load factor).
That is quite an impressive start and hopefully bodes well for the future.