I think that is a given and fairly obvious, MAG and RYR are heavily involved with each other with huge RYR ops across STN, MAN and EMA. It's an uphill battle faced with such a relationship for LPL with RYR it seems,
EZY are not far behind, adding new units, and routes, at MAN in 2016 in far greater extent than LPL, but at least they seem not to be directly transferring routes from LPL.
This makes all these new carriers and routes all the more important, of which there has been quite a few recently. It was not long back that LPL had just EZY and RYR, so to get to 9 carriers is fabulous work.
Quite a fuss being made on LPL twitter of Flybe and Aer Lingus routes, both can really help offset the seemed lack of commitment from EZY and RYR.