Didn't Manchester break an Austrian 321 a few winters back ?
Tail strike remember - in fact 2 years to the day - OE-LBF
Yes that's correct. The aircraft was here a week or so before being flown to TLS IIRC.
and MAN won't normally use contact stands or taxiways nowadays apparently. Not sure where we parked them all last night
We had about 13 diverts in during yesterday, and one Thomson was parked on a T2 contact stand and an Easyjet was parked on a remote T2 stand.
Our problem isn't just scarce staff resources but lack of remote stands at times like this
Staffing issues is one thing (is there no forward planning at MAN, after all airlines have been ringing MAN for the past 2 days to keep staff on for this weather which had been forecast).
However, remotes were an issue too. The Jet2 static display team are in full swing, we have a flynas A320 taking up 1 stand, and a Saudi Cargo that was supposed to leave at 2100 didn't until 0530.