To be fair Suzeman a few of us have been banging on about this for more than a few years, long before EI cottoned on to feeding these flights !
That said i have little doubt like us, the Manch management are becoming more than a bit concerned about DUB and the high frequencies this is now attracting from eg Leeds and now of course Liverpool.
It would have been nice to have been proactive rather than reactive and I have no doubt somebody has finally woken up to the threat DUB poses, but hallaluah, rejoice we are there at last, brilliant news and i agree a possible "gamechanger".
I just hope upon absolute hope we don't get some meddling MP or civil servant sticking the boot in re soveriegn territory issues etc etc when they are utterley clueless supporting other aspects of the MAN operation.