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This is precisely when you need max capacity.
Now, we have reduced egress from the runway - AE or A1. Flow rates go down, separation increases, congestion starts.
This is a blatant poverty measure from MAN to save money.
A major international airport should easily cope with this snow, they have responsibility to their customers to provide adequate facilities in order that they may operate as normal a service as possible.
Our OTP was down to 16% this week, I flew a rotation on days off because the airport couldn't cope and a crew ran out of hours after the punters had been on board for 5 hours. Then there were no hotels so they stayed in the terminal overnight. They were not happy campers when we took them to GOI on Monday.
Additionally, the Cabin Crew who had planned on a 5 day stay over Christmas, brought friends and partners were now forced into a 1 night stay. Their Christmas was ruined, the passengers were hugely inconvenienced and all we could say was that the facilities at MAN were inadequate.........
They still blame us as the operator
