Glad to see that the airport is investing more money on the airfield.
And there could be a significant airport construction announcement in the next few months. All I can say is no more tatty looking piers in T1!
In other news,
Libyan Arab are have currently suspended EU ops due to an incident where the Nouvelair Tunisie aircraft lost comms on approach to LHR. There doesn't seem to be a timescale as to when LHR/MAN will be brought back online.
Cathay Pacific cargo look to be running a further reduced schedule this summer, with many weeks having just 1 weekly flight on Mondays. Depressing to think this route used to run at 8 weekly and now struggles to maintain 3 weekly.
One does have to wonder if the cargo market will ever pick up again at MAN. I know the recession hit and all that, but to think we used to have Jett8, Great wall, Air China, Cathay pacific, China airlines, fedex MD11's and Jade cargo were on the cusp of starting.
Now we just have 4 weekly Lufthansa, up to 3 weekly Cathay and a B757/ATR combo on fedex flights. There seems to be a strong rumour that DHL will be running a regular B767 through MAN (let out of the bag at a bigwigs dinner conference a few weeks ago), but apart from that, its pretty quiet on the cargo apron!