Originally Posted by
Adola69
Looking on today from the OUTSIDE, it appeared to be chaotic for aircraft getting to or awaiting for stands. I saw Air Transat, TAP, Singapore, Lufthansa, SAS, waiting in excess of 15mins on taxiways. I do hope the airlines claim compensation for making the outbound flight late and the wastage of fuel. (so much for lessening carbon emissions).
Yet another example of MA's policy of Make Do. Before ANY of this re-development work started, they should have constructed spare apron space, so that as Terminal stands were de-commissioned for terminal work,
they had somewhere to park aircraft out of the way so as not to interfere with scheduled traffic movements. The old Hangar space near the Romper is an ideal spot. Both of those should have been flattened years ago, as they almost were ready to fall down by themselves.
As for the terminal extension, the new finger from T2 to the new pier looks very cheap and nasty. Perhaps constructed to align with that crap piece of construction that gets you from T1 lounge to pier B past the old Idlex tower, which has just about room for two people side by side.
How Emirates must laugh at such a piece of inept access. I've seen wider corridors in Olympic house.
MA are devoid of any Imagination or of producing a first class product anymore, it's always appears to be cheap cheap cheap. "Build it and they will come". " Build it cheaply and watch them leave "
I wonder how long it'll take the MA police to take this comment off the thread?
Much love,
Adola.
Where were these aircraft positioned whilst waiting for their stands? There is a big project on-going with taxiway redevelopments at the moment and for the rest of this year, it’s inevitable that aircraft waiting to access T2 or pier C of T1 will have to wait near the tower for aircraft coming out of Pier C or T2.
In order to fix something or improve a process, you have to first make a mess.
The situation with aircraft holding is not ideal, especially from a passengers perspective if, for example, they happen to be relying on catching a train at a certain time, like myself when I use MAN. However, I would like to think MAG informed their airline customers long before this taxiway work commenced of possible delays during taxiing.
I know there is a NOTAM in place whilst all the works are taking place informing air crew of the possibility of extended waiting times on the airfield if aircraft arrive early due to stand availability.
MAN just doesn’t have enough space and in my view it was inevitable these type of issues were going to arise.
I look forward to the end of may when I fly from the new pier and also to 2020 and beyond, when we will see an improvement and more efficient pattern in aircraft parking spaces and movements.