Following some comments on another thread regarding how quickly STN may catch up MAN for pax numbers.
It was previously reported by someone that a similar ACL document showed MAN's seats available to be 2.5% higher for this summer based it was said after the slots handback. If both STN and MAN achieve consistent LFs compared to last summer for seats available, STN would certainly make further progress to catching up MAN.
However, it would need growth of something nearer 15% I suspect to actually do so if pax at MAN increase by 2.5%. (And one would like to think MAN can do better than 2.5%).
We still await news of the expected plans for the major redevelopment here.
I wonder what realistic growth could be achieved while such significant infrastructure changes are being carried out.