But bear in mind that some Manchester Airport customers are elderly, frail or partially disabled.
Then if this is such an issue, either: Get special assistance, it is readily available. Dont forget, you are still stood up on the escalators, it doesnt actually save you from 'walking'.
Is it too much to ask that the principal gateway airport serving Northern England ... for some travelers their first impression of this country ... can actually switch on its escalators and travelators?
Id very much doubt travellers to the UK would base the lack of a working travelator a reason not to visit the country.
"Does anything work in this dump," they said, "what a ****ing sh**hole!"
I have rarely heard anyone say that. Id doubt it was a business traveller either, more likely the big family bucket and spade fliers who have paid £150pp for their holiday anyway.
This attitude of penny-pinching in the name of environmentalism makes MAN look like Hicksville Municipal. It makes for a shameful introduction to a region of England which deserves far better.
Its a flippin travelator! So what, you have to walk a few extra feet when you arrive. After being sat down between 2-10 hours, surely it is a welcome break and gets your blood flowing again.
Put it this way, if someone came to visit here form say, Australia, had a good tour of the UK, saw sights they will never see again, saw family they will not see for a long time again, that the highlight of their holiday was the 'lack of travelators in the airport'?
You really are putting too much emphasis on this, IT DOESNT MATTER!!!
Even when the travelators are working, I see most people opting to walk around them anyway!
Please, the situation isnt going to change, and in reality its only a few who actually care about a working travelator, so can we please just move on!