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Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
14th Sep 2017, 05:13
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

You're talking about a route that has lost all...

You're talking about a route that has lost all the cargo capacity of the DC10 and B777 days. I would be surprised to see it go but it depends on what replaces the ex CO B757 fleet tbh.
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
1st Sep 2017, 13:01
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

For main deck cargo aircraft, it CAN BE DONE, as...

For main deck cargo aircraft, it CAN BE DONE, as any AMS or HKG trip will show.
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
19th Aug 2017, 09:36
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

AA scaled back their European presence massively,...

AA scaled back their European presence massively, it's a mere fraction of what it once was. The reason they have a large presence today is because of the merger with US, much of the existing network...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
17th Aug 2017, 21:23
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

J636 nails it. Thomas Cook have done the legwork...

J636 nails it. Thomas Cook have done the legwork in taking on the US legacies with well priced and direct point to point leaving an opportunity for Norwegian to join the party. They're not going to...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
3rd Aug 2017, 16:19
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

Good point, but the ME3 are a particular kind of...

Good point, but the ME3 are a particular kind of flag carrying pseudo-political state entities. With more money than God they've captured market share going East in a massive way from the old...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
9th Jul 2017, 00:49
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

They're a chaotic mess behind the scenes IMHO. ...

They're a chaotic mess behind the scenes IMHO.
If Norwegian were to take a serious look at MAN with 787s, the public would likely choose DY as they'd be cheaper with shinier aeroplanes. Norwegian...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
30th Jun 2017, 10:52
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

They're not, they're surely local. In a market so...

They're not, they're surely local. In a market so competitive for talent, they'd lose too many key staff by making them shift out of the SE to Manchester. Linkedin would be on fire in that space and...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
23rd Jun 2017, 23:09
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

Actually United, Delta, American and Air Canada...

Actually United, Delta, American and Air Canada Rouge do serve both EDI and GLA. Virgin serve GLA alongside a large TCX Florida and sun program. There will be a fair few using TCX at MAN on price I...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
23rd Jun 2017, 14:34
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

This was Gil Thompson's stated objective but be...

This was Gil Thompson's stated objective but be honest, that predated the fragmentation of airport policy and the rise of open skies in Scotland and Edinburgh taking off after years of being...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
15th Jun 2017, 07:25
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

Layout helps the mentality IMHO. MAN T2 and T3...

Layout helps the mentality IMHO.
MAN T2 and T3 are hardly intuitive to use adding to stress levels, EDI has an equally barmy layout, whereas, in my view, GLA got it right. Huge new security hall,...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
14th Jun 2017, 11:36
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

.....if this is true, it's an interesting (and...

.....if this is true, it's an interesting (and increasingly common) example of someone following a rule without any appreciation for the reason or rationale. Does anyone know what that might be?
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
12th Jun 2017, 21:18
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

Is there a link showing airports by compliance to...

Is there a link showing airports by compliance to DfT security regs???
Post it, let's see who to avoid
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
9th Jun 2017, 13:29
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

Only airport on Earth where security threatened...

Only airport on Earth where security threatened me with Police when I insisted on drinking my forbidden 50ml of remainiing water post security, old guy was conviniced this Scottish bloke in front of...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
6th Jun 2017, 09:00
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

The mentality of "wasting" a B787 on ORD-MAN is...

The mentality of "wasting" a B787 on ORD-MAN is surely countered by Norwegian buying a fleet of new B787s and flying them on LGW-JFK. The BA B744 fleet is capable of being used on LHR-SIN but...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
15th May 2017, 15:02
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

A350 capacity wise may be too big. Virgin are not...

A350 capacity wise may be too big. Virgin are not in the best place financially, surprised at the lack of take up on some of the new MAN long haul. Perhaps TCX is just a better fit for the MAN...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
17th Apr 2017, 23:37
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

SQ fly the A359 SIN-MAN-IAH already.

SQ fly the A359 SIN-MAN-IAH already.
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
6th Apr 2017, 16:17
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

No, it's just they won't want to damage yields...

No, it's just they won't want to damage yields and you have no visibility whatsoever on how the yield management is performing. You keep looking at everything as an optimist, first with news and...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
3rd Apr 2017, 10:48
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

MAN has a fundamentally stronger ME3 presence,...

MAN has a fundamentally stronger ME3 presence, it's comparably huge in comparison with like sized European airports, that's my thinking against Cathay being able to grow much beyond daily in the...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
2nd Apr 2017, 17:28
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

Don't see Cathay at more than daily any more than...

Don't see Cathay at more than daily any more than I see SQ doing the same. The A350 should do well for them though. As for co-operating with Qater, neither carrier is famed for co-operating deeply in...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
27th Mar 2017, 16:37
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

Sorry chaps but we have a social media analytics...

Sorry chaps but we have a social media analytics team and the only analysis they do is sentiment analysis. I've done it myself back in 2010, it's not a new thing.
Proper, real behavioural analysis...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
27th Mar 2017, 11:08
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

I work in analytics :) Social media is...

I work in analytics :)
Social media is generally the realm of the intern or a junior. It has the behaviour of an echo chamber where like minded people can be misled to believe that they are in a...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
26th Mar 2017, 21:36
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

This is common, it's why MAN-FRA-xyz is often...

This is common, it's why MAN-FRA-xyz is often cheaper from the UK than German based fare buckets. In F/C classes, it's where the term ex-EU comes from, where people take advantage of premium fares...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
25th Mar 2017, 23:18
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

Add to the fact almost every route out of ORD on...

Add to the fact almost every route out of ORD on AA is going B788 except MAN +1 too. Perhaps Virgin see MAN more leisure focussed and seasonal than Delta? Perhaps that was the rationale?

*cough...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
17th Mar 2017, 10:35
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

Eurowings have taken on a host of Air Berlin...

Eurowings have taken on a host of Air Berlin A320s in crewed by Air Berlin and flown in full Eurowings colours.
Eurowings: Wet lease of airberlin A320s a challenging task | Airframes content from...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
17th Mar 2017, 10:02
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

Operating a twice daily AA B757 is perhaps...

Operating a twice daily AA B757 is perhaps intentionally running MAN down, in 2017/18 that's a fundamentally sub-par product in market. What's worse, the intention rather than aiming for a now more...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
8th Mar 2017, 23:20
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

Interesting, thanks for the update. However,...

Interesting, thanks for the update.

However, the "fantastic short haul network" needed to make loco long haul is in place already at BCN....with Vueling. Dear God who wants to come off a red eye...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
7th Mar 2017, 07:32
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

One page back, MAN was the best connected airport...

One page back, MAN was the best connected airport in the UK with direct access to the rail network and more regional connectivity than any other UK airfield. Now people can't access it? A lot can...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
6th Mar 2017, 12:58
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

Virgin used to do the same with Orlando....

Virgin used to do the same with Orlando. Replacing a brand new A343 by leasing in PH-MCG, a B767 then their releasing their own sold-on B747 classics operated by Air Atlanta on the Icelandic...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
6th Mar 2017, 11:26
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

The oldest oddballs in the fleet with the...

The oldest oddballs in the fleet with the shortest range (!)
It still seems a complete FUBAR that American couldn't make the B787-8 work on MAN-ORD with alongside almost new A332s running MAN-PHL....
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
5th Mar 2017, 00:56
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

If things are looking tight on UK-US, running an...

If things are looking tight on UK-US, running an A333 on MAN-JFK rather than the planned B752 seems like something that might need revising? A shame Delta are rewarding long seeving staff with the...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
23rd Feb 2017, 09:59
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

No I fly from Gatters as often as I use LHR. LGW...

No I fly from Gatters as often as I use LHR. LGW is great at what it does, leisure focused and p2p, it's a huge asset in that space.
LHR was woeful for years, decaying terminals, end of life...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
22nd Feb 2017, 21:59
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

Shed-on-pole, given MAN has proportionally more...

Shed-on-pole, given MAN has proportionally more legacy short haul, legacy long haul AND massively more ME3 by proportion than easyJet *dominated* Gatwick, not sure blaming price conscious consumers...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
22nd Feb 2017, 12:01
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

Chandeliers, it needs more chandeliers. Anyone...

Chandeliers, it needs more chandeliers. Anyone know where they went?

It's interesting at just how much money GIP have thrown at Gatwick. It really has transformed an airport where the major...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
12th Feb 2017, 18:15
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

Shed on a Pole is wrong. MAG absolutely can...

Shed on a Pole is wrong.
MAG absolutely can just order airlines to move terminals, it happens quite a lot. Given MAN is not really a hub for any alliance it doesn't matter what terminal they're all...
Forum: Airlines, Airports & Routes
11th Feb 2017, 16:40
Replies: 8,557
Views: 4,014,550
Posted By Skipness One Echo

MAN-GLA/INV now sit with Loganair so flybe are no...

MAN-GLA/INV now sit with Loganair so flybe are no longer operating come end of franchise I believe. Perhaps handing them over now seems like a mis-step given the feed?
My understanding was Loganair...
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