‘It would take a fool to say Manchester wasn’t a city going places,’ says United Airlines director
“We don’t do this for fun...we do it because it makes a return and why does it make a return? because we are providing a service in a market that needs it and wants it”
United Airlines UK Manager addressing the Manchester chamber of commerce pre pandemic.
Bob Schumacher. 2017
"We’ve got a long history of connections as Bob mentioned... 1.6m people have passed through our doors in Manchester flying to North America and half a million people are flying to New York, but we fly to 10 airports in North America and we are flying the largest network in the UK outside of London to North America"
Tricia Williams Former MAG spokeperson, same conference
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The market has surely not evaporated on exchange rates alone ?
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As for your second point, I'm astounded.
"The greater issue is short term capacity given move of T1 and T3 carriers into T2 on 2025.
Really so can we expect the 4 now 5 JET2 units lost to Liverpool to return in 2025 ?
Its like a manager at ASDA saying to his customers we are doing a bit of renovation so you can't shop with us at the moment. The customer is somewhat peeed off so goes to ALDI where they are welcomed with open arms.
ASDA re open in 2025 but guess what the customers have all gone somewhere else !!!
Last edited by Navpi; 19th Nov 2023 at 06:59.