The prevailing mentality on this thread - that MAN can do no wrong, any airline / terminal / public transport / local economic development at MAN must be sung from the rooftops (regardless of its relevance to your average PPruner) whilst any prospect of development elsewhere is a heinous sleight against the Manchester area - is becoming extremely tiresome. Anyone disagreeing with this doctrine seems to be flamed by the regular posters.
I have my own views on all of the above but in the hope of restoring some semblance of balanced debate to this thread, will refrain from expressing them. Is there a hope of any balance being displayed by any of the other regular posters?