Originally Posted by
Mooncrest
Aer Lingus once used Manchester as a staging post for FF flights between Ireland and continental Europe. Brussels and Copenhagen come to mind. What became of these flights ?
Through the the sixties and seventies via the pooling arrangements and then again at the start of open sky’s and single market within the EU .
Aer Lingus served Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Hamburg , Zurich, and Milan, via Manchester in the seventies under pooling where it didn’t matter if you flew EI/BE/LH/KL/SR/AZ or SK the ticket prices were the same all on a single docket revenues being shared and prices were monsteroius by modern standards . Timetables were however co-ordinated
They later tried again under open sky’s with an additional route via Bristol to Brussels without much success
Other routes operated via Manchester have included TAP to Dublin, Luxair to Dublin, SAS to Dublin, Lufthansa to Dublin Sterling to yes you guessed it !
Something of a thyme do you think ?
By the way Aer Lingus also had a short Manchester and Belfast via Shannon and Dublin series of direct US services the eighties from memory.