As you say Manchester has a large number of based aircraft - I understand it's 88 including VIR & TCX long-haul but excluding nightstoppers such as BAW & KLM. No wonder there are high numbers of 1st wave departures.

But your 5,000 per hour is over three terminals. So in T1 for instance, you might say 2,000 passengers per hour which is 33 per minute. A lot, but if they use 6 security lanes, that is say 6 per minute per lane. Not totally impossible and if they opened more lanes, the flow would be faster and people would have longer time in duty-free or buying food.

Declared departure capacity of T1 is 3000 per hour and it's hitting that in first wave. T3 @ 1500 ph likewise. T2 is, I think, 2500 ph and has less demand since the Monarch collapse.

With the rumours that Jet2 will move more flights over to T2 in 2019 hopefully it'll help stop T1 from hitting that big number.

Or it could free up space for other operators to grow. The number will be reached regardless. the Jet2 move would just delay the inevitable.
Following on from that, does anyone know any more about the destinations moving over to T2?

It's been rumoured Pegasus are going to start a 4x weekly service from Manchester to Instanbul Sabiha-Goçken. Any truth to these rumours?

Nothing at all wrong with having based planes - in fact they create good well paid jobs for the local economy. What is wrong is MAN management's inability to plan and implement a strategy for dealing with the consequences.
T1 is woefully inadequate for handling the number of passengers it already does - although I suspect if all the security lanes were fully open and staffed adequately, that part of the operation might just about cope. Am I right in stating that T1 at MAN would still be the biggest airport outside London in its own right?
Whatever, the wrecking ball can't come soon enough for this particular lashed together set of compromises..
Going through there first thing Sunday morning for another trip - dreading it.
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Got to remember that most of the based wide-bodies are on long-haul and do not depart in the first wave, before 0900. They behave almost the same as non-based long-haul, i.e. in the air overnight, arriving 0530 onwards and not departing until after 0900. Long-haul departures peak between 1000 and 1300, with a small East-bound wave in the evening.

The car park on Thorley lane would not be big enough to act as a staff car park alone (Look on Google earth for size comparison). Are you sure it's not the one on Ringway rd ?

I noticed in the latest "State Of The Nation" PR piece, the airport CEO suggested capacity will rise to 45m with the new TP.

We appear to have quietly lost 10m ! All the previous PR puff pieces suggested capacity would ACTUALLY rise to 55m.

Can I launch an appeal for the missing 10m !

<br /><br />55 Million is the ultimate potential of the two runways according to MAG. Such calculations are always open to question as runways determine ATM and not the passenger volume directly. No one is suggesting that figure can be achieved wit just the MAN-TP development. A lot more will be needed after 2024 but TP will have shifted the centre of the airport to T2 allowing for the T1 / T3 site to be developed.<br /><br />On the staff car parking, T3 mid-stay is currently being double-decked with a quickly assembled steel structure and so will be able to take a good deal more soon.

Hammer blow by xxxxs in Whitehall to aspirations of transport connectivity to Man Airport as Trans Penine electrification is about to get cancelled.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/61267934-7ca0-11e8-8ce4-0bcac63244b2

The North should introduce it's own National Anthem

"we've been shafted again"