Q Has Manchester peaked..?
Lets be honest if MAS could not "supposedly" make money on 80% load factors and they end up in bloody Gatwick , we have no chance of attracting the other big players like QANTAS, SAA, Air India etc etc back......
The long hall market appears to have peaked as has the target of 40M pax a year !
...and now sadly it appears SAUDIA is going back to 1 a week so clearly that is also about to go down the pan as indeed are JETT8 (although appreciate that is a different area) !
...and whats happening with SIA ?
The ONLY way that Man can compete against London is on price, we are already penalised because of the dominance of the South East, it is such a massive hub but there is something seriously wrong when you hear all these stories of poeople from the North Of England ramming flights that originate in the South East and yet services from Manchester cannot make money.
So what is going wrong ?
Does anyone know what happended with the landing fees ?
There are some bright spots Re EMIRATES BUT generally its a gloomy outlook.
Landing fees must be more competitive !
There is little point banging on about long haul services such as THAI etc..... if almost everybody else has failed, on what possible basis does anybody hope that they might have a cat in hells chance of success given the current backdrop of airlines which have "tried and failed".
With the recent influx of long haul cargo it "looked" as though that was a bright spot but even that is now looking dodgy.
Can somebody cheer me up please !