But none of that is an excuse to go around the airport campus with a member of staff on your bonnet simply because it pees you off.

To your comment though, for every passenger who votes with their feet and goes to LHR, there are many more for whom going to London sticks in their throat and will not entertain the idea.

Incidentally, I have no problem with using LHR, transit or otherwise, and please don’t see this a supporting MAN’s failings but like I said a few posts ago, some seem to be ‘laying it on thick’. Add balance to your arguments.

The airlines you cite CX (et-al) will continue to flourish. The likes of EK in particular, will fly into worse places around the world than MAN and geographically, MAN will always be very convenient.

MAN has issues but let’s not predict the end of the world.

Some of your opinions lack context though.

1) The wider debate surrounded the car bonnet incident and whether MAN’s failures justified it. You weighed into that debate.

2) As appalling as the bagge incident is, these videos appear every so often. I can’t remember where the last place was where such behaviour was captured. It won’t affect passenger numbers.

3) CX -the fact they are going to DUB doesn’t necessarily reflect on MAN’s performance. It could well be a strategic decision or even that CX at MAN is performing well (which it is) but hasn’t yet proven a business case for further frequencies yet.

4) Hainan has more to do with its own issues than anything else I would say.

I just think some, at this stage at least, are exaggerating the affect of some of the problems that MAN faces.

The example of your colleague is totally anecdotal as is the people I come across from time to time who say “we usually like to fly from Liverpool” etc etc.

Singapore has never had more than one daily flight to Changi in 40 years I think?
The airlines who come in on long haul and sustain double daily in a few years tend to be two ME rivals, one of which is blockading the other at time of writing, and even Emirates is still one daily at NCL after all this time. Surely if Cathay need more capacity, the A350-1000 would be the first option rather than another flight?

I've never seen so much rubbish being posted on here. Firstly, I do understand the issues at MAN and have experienced them first hand (Admittedly I only depart Manchester twice a month).

Some of the inaccuracies posted on here-

"No new airlines want to start at MAN' - False. Jet Airways & Ethiopian are starting ops in the next few months.

'Cathay chose MAN over DUB' - Well we can't be sure on that. However, CX are increasing MAN from the A350-900 to the A350-1000 in December.

'No moving walkways working' - I feel that this is an exaggeration considering I arrived at MAN the other day and all were working (To my surprise). The escalator in arrivals is turned off with the justification being to slow the flow of passengers entering passport control. I do feel that this shows a real lack of investment in staffing by the Home Office. The E-Gates also reject a high number of passengers and are very slow in comparison to those in other countries (Did the Home Office purchase them or was it the airport?).

You'd have to be daft to consider Heathrow because Manchester takes an extra 15 minutes. Drive for 3+ hours to save 15 minutes. Logical. MAN will not be losing passenger numbers over this, people will always be tempted to go for the lowest fare, no matter which airport.

There is no doubt that MAN has some serious issues that need sorting. Have a reasonable debate, though please can we have facts rather than the inaccurate comments being posted.