Nice report.
Great trip report thanks for sharing.
I love the photos of the 77W against all the piddly little planes at MAN. There's nothing like seeing a real plane amongst all those mini planes.
Interestingly it looks like MAN is still printing dodgy boarding passes. They don't look like proper Cathay stock in the photo.
That will be up to CX's check in agent in MAN. BA, AF and KL passes from MAN appear on the regular paper for those airlines as I remember?
As for piddly planes, BE codeshares with CX now to provide an IOM-MAN service on a Dash 8.