Station Announcer Manchester Airport
The 2015 service to Leeds will now be departing in at least 10 years time….
Any fule know that there isn't a 2015; the Leeds train departs at 2020
The "pause" in TPE electrification should not affect the Airport in any meaningful sense at present.
The things that could are the request for a judicial review into the Ordsall Chord (to be heard in September) which, if the project is much delayed, will b*gger up the Northern hub and the additional capacity which will allow new routes to the Airport.
And secondly the award of the new TPE franchise - due in December - where the short listed companies have options to run more of their services across the N Pennine route to Liverpool rather than the Airport.