Manchester seems to be improving (see the lack of bad posts on the "Manchester Experience" thread). I went through T2 yesterday. Got to the airport around 03:20. Small queue for AF checkin, but security was fine. The main problem is that the restaurants / lounges don't open until 04:00, so there are huge queues - even at 03:40! The Escape lounge didn't open until 04:05, and only had 1 person on the desk (doing both Escape and 1903 lounges). So, it took 15 minutes to actually get it.