A day in the life of a MAN-Hub
Some say that MAN can never be a hub without a based hub carrier. Well, let’s take a look at a typical day (today) between 0600 and 1800 and see what has been happening with regard to passengers transferring flights at MAN. My data is from a very reliable source and I offer it here with the following observations:
My data shows simply the number of passengers recorded as ‘transfer’ (at MAN) on various arriving and departing flights, it does not record the particular connections made by passengers.
I have excluded Flybe transfer passengers from the list. Flybe have many transfer passengers, in fact most Flybe flights at MAN have some transfer pax, as many as 30-40%. Many are going onwards with Flybe but many will be joining code share partner’s long-haul services.
I have generally excluded flights with less than 10 transfer pax, there are many such.
Overall I estimate that in the period recorded (0600-1800hrs), about 25% of flights arriving and departing MAN had some transfer pax.
Service Pax transferring at MAN
Hainan arr / dep Beijing 25 / 7
Qatar arr /dep Doha 73 / 0 (am flight)
Etihad arr / dep Abu Dhabi 140 / 8
American arr / dep JFK 14 / 64
Finnair arr / dep Helsinki 16 / 2
BA arr / dep Heathrow 10 / 13
SAS arr /dep Copenhagen 12 / 0
Thomas Cook arr / dep JFK 12 / 0
American arr /dep Philadelphia 3 /48
American arr / dep Chicago 1 / 100
Etihad arr Abu Dhabi 24 / - (evening departure)
United arr / dep Washington 0 / 9