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How will Pax who arrive by Train,bus or coach get from the syklink to T3?
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A lot of senior people are very annoyed that this has been "overlooked" and a scheme is under way to ensure a landside route remains from The Station to T3 as well as landside transfers from T2.
I've heard that there will be no UK route announcement by Air Asia until the end of January once Tony Fernandes and Co have visited UK airports, of which MAN is one.
IJWH
[/quote]A lot of senior people are very annoyed that this has been "overlooked" and a scheme is under way to ensure a landside route remains from The Station to T3 as well as landside transfers from T2.
I've heard that there will be no UK route announcement by Air Asia until the end of January once Tony Fernandes and Co have visited UK airports, of which MAN is one.
IJWH
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How do you lug all your bags from "The station" to T3, when T1 becomes virtually all airside- yes, completely overlooked. It is already an obstacle course as it is, maybe the buses will come back?
Next, if you check in with MYT or Jet2, do you queue on the stairs to get into security / airside?
Have all these issues been thought through? I don't know, as information seems very sparse.
Another issue is the travelators from T2 to "The station". Every night, usually about 8pm, they are all turned OFF. This is to save money, as there are no departures from T2. Meanwhile, every night people struggle with lots of bags over the huge distance, without walkways TO "The Station", no consideration being given to any of the many T2 arrivals at night.
Of course in Germany & the like, travelators are used "on demand"-they STOP auto if no one uses them & start auto when they do.Maybe they cost more...but save on running costs.
Come on MA, flog at least one of your airport "empires" & spend some money at your home base & get Ringway back into the top league where it used to be when Sir Gil ran the show.
How do you lug all your bags from "The station" to T3, when T1 becomes virtually all airside- yes, completely overlooked. It is already an obstacle course as it is, maybe the buses will come back?
Next, if you check in with MYT or Jet2, do you queue on the stairs to get into security / airside?
Have all these issues been thought through? I don't know, as information seems very sparse.
Another issue is the travelators from T2 to "The station". Every night, usually about 8pm, they are all turned OFF. This is to save money, as there are no departures from T2. Meanwhile, every night people struggle with lots of bags over the huge distance, without walkways TO "The Station", no consideration being given to any of the many T2 arrivals at night.
Of course in Germany & the like, travelators are used "on demand"-they STOP auto if no one uses them & start auto when they do.Maybe they cost more...but save on running costs.
Come on MA, flog at least one of your airport "empires" & spend some money at your home base & get Ringway back into the top league where it used to be when Sir Gil ran the show.
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I think we'll see the T3 bus link to and from The Station and T2 reinstated. Can't happen soon enough in my opinion! Will no doubt be combined with the Staff West car park bus?!
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No Money for Improvements?
Want to find a surprise pot????
Go and look at the part One compensation budget for Runway Two and see what provision has been made and what has been spent.
If this facility were moved into the investment scenario, once the statute of limitations period expires, then it could do some good instead of just lying around
Go and look at the part One compensation budget for Runway Two and see what provision has been made and what has been spent.
If this facility were moved into the investment scenario, once the statute of limitations period expires, then it could do some good instead of just lying around
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PRuNe's moderators have decided members can only make passing references to football on the Manchester Airport thread. I don't think that is unreasonable.
Now for those who want to post about the Airport and not football, can we get back on track.
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Still partly on the football front but not being a utd fan do Air Asia normally do as much advertising as they have today at the match? or this this a good way of getting to be known by the public before they announce a Manchester route
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To those still a bit fuzzy on the concept of this being an Airport forum and not a football one (particularly the ones that have been deleted since the last Mod post): If you are feeling kamikaze-like do it again.
On the other hand there is now a thread in Jetblast where you can discuss it to your heart's content.
Cheers,
The Mods
On the other hand there is now a thread in Jetblast where you can discuss it to your heart's content.
Cheers,
The Mods
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Vuelo -
looks like your contacts gave us the kiss of death unless its old news ...!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6233295.stm?ls
Air Asia have announced London services, no mention of Manchester unless they are doing both and we do not warrant inclusion !
Another one down the pan !
looks like your contacts gave us the kiss of death unless its old news ...!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6233295.stm?ls
Air Asia have announced London services, no mention of Manchester unless they are doing both and we do not warrant inclusion !
Another one down the pan !
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With an initial order of 'about 20 aircraft', operating initially 2 or 3, it's doubtful that MAN will be one of the first destinations served.
All this speculation about MAN services, on a variety of different sites is driving me nuts, and all for the sake of a dodgy report by a dodgy hack linking Air Asia with an unlikely Virgin and easyjet. Anybody who gets too enthusiastic about the constant annual deluge of unsubstantiated rumours deserves all the disappointment coming to them.
For the time-being, if it's the Far East and Oz/New Zealand you want, there's a reasonable choice of SQ, EK, QR and EY.
All this speculation about MAN services, on a variety of different sites is driving me nuts, and all for the sake of a dodgy report by a dodgy hack linking Air Asia with an unlikely Virgin and easyjet. Anybody who gets too enthusiastic about the constant annual deluge of unsubstantiated rumours deserves all the disappointment coming to them.
For the time-being, if it's the Far East and Oz/New Zealand you want, there's a reasonable choice of SQ, EK, QR and EY.
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You are forgetting that it is the 'silly season'
- happens every year about this time when
the nights start drawing in and the people
have too much time on their hands sat
hunched over the PC waiting..................
for the next bright idea to hit the keyboard
Still, its a social thing in its own way........
MM
You are forgetting that it is the 'silly season'
- happens every year about this time when
the nights start drawing in and the people
have too much time on their hands sat
hunched over the PC waiting..................
for the next bright idea to hit the keyboard
Still, its a social thing in its own way........
MM
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Forgive me if this quotation has been posted before, but paragraph 13 of the attached URL states:
"FAX chief executive officer Raja Azmi Raja Razali said the first three flights, in July, would be to Manchester, Hangzhou and Tianjin."
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp...788&sec=nation
"FAX chief executive officer Raja Azmi Raja Razali said the first three flights, in July, would be to Manchester, Hangzhou and Tianjin."
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp...788&sec=nation
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IF any new flights arrive at Manch, then I hope that all the pax bring their hiking boots. The "Travelator" between the Station and T2 was TOTALLY stopped tonight [10pm] 
watp,iktch
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Chiglet, I refer you to post 186 re the T2 travelators, they are ALL switched off after 8pm to save money.
Just another unanswered question re the T1 new airside plans. I doubt whever any of the senior team walk around the terminal at midnight, but if they did, they would find a number of people resting/dozing in chairs.
These are people who travel long distances to fly from MAN & need to overnight in the Terminal ready for 4-5am check-in.
When the terminal becomes all airside, what provision will be made for people like this to wait for check-in? Or has this been overlooked too like the provision of a route from The Station to T3?
Just another unanswered question re the T1 new airside plans. I doubt whever any of the senior team walk around the terminal at midnight, but if they did, they would find a number of people resting/dozing in chairs.
These are people who travel long distances to fly from MAN & need to overnight in the Terminal ready for 4-5am check-in.
When the terminal becomes all airside, what provision will be made for people like this to wait for check-in? Or has this been overlooked too like the provision of a route from The Station to T3?
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When the terminal becomes all airside, what provision will be made for people like this to wait for check-in? Or has this been overlooked too like the provision of a route from The Station to T3?
believe the answer to that is Bewleys or any of the other airport hotels on site. Nobody has forced people to overnight in a terminal
There are many arrivals by public transport 10/11pm, who need to check in at 4am. Would you fork out the airport hotel rates for just a few hours rest?
It should not be beyond the airports ability to provided restful seating for these people, like they do in many airports around the world.
Making the airport more difficult to use will just put people off & send them elsewhere.
Security queue lines, switching travelators off, obstacle course routes to terminals, lack of adequate seating etc etc these will all contribute to loss of pax unless they are thought through properly & perhaps consult people who work & know the aiport, rather than bean counters who decide these things remotely from the real world.