EAST MIDLANDS - 6
Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Nice, Cote d'Azur
Age: 42
Posts: 64
EMA Parking & Land Side
I remember the day when the parking was completely free for 2 hours, and you could go for a pint upstairs (landside) in the Departures Hall and watch the Aircraft come and go from the spectators balcony. ahhh they were the days!
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Wolverhampton
Posts: 0
Originally Posted by nuisance79
I remember the day when the parking was completely free for 2 hours, and you could go for a pint upstairs (landside) in the Departures Hall and watch the Aircraft come and go from the spectators balcony. ahhh they were the days!
In those days (70's) you could walk right out to the end of the Piers and there was a Cafe on top of the main building for refreshments. Good Times gone forever.
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 2,410
Originally Posted by sixchannel
Ah, memories! Back in the day when our kids were little we used to go for the afternoon to MAN plane-spotting.
In those days (70's) you could walk right out to the end of the Piers and there was a Cafe on top of the main building for refreshments. Good Times gone forever.
In those days (70's) you could walk right out to the end of the Piers and there was a Cafe on top of the main building for refreshments. Good Times gone forever.
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Leicestershire
Age: 37
Posts: 145
Used to be good times at EMA as a kid with the viewing area looking out at the TEA uk, Britannia, Air Europe etc jets.
Birmingham had the viewing area in the terminal also and Heathrow on top of the Queens Building. Shame I can't take the kids to these places, yet when we went Vienna and Amsterdam these area's still exist and are actively encouraged with tours etc.
Manchester and EMA at least have the viewing parks I guess... Heathrow have that tiny stand outside the Renaissance!
Birmingham had the viewing area in the terminal also and Heathrow on top of the Queens Building. Shame I can't take the kids to these places, yet when we went Vienna and Amsterdam these area's still exist and are actively encouraged with tours etc.
Manchester and EMA at least have the viewing parks I guess... Heathrow have that tiny stand outside the Renaissance!
Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Centre of Universe
Posts: 335
Originally Posted by nuisance79
I remember the day when the parking was completely free for 2 hours, and you could go for a pint upstairs (landside) in the Departures Hall and watch the Aircraft come and go from the spectators balcony. ahhh they were the days!
It's only about profit and EMA don't get a to$$ about punters.
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Wolverhampton
Posts: 0
Originally Posted by CaptainSensible
I see that all the roads at EMA have now been plastered with double red lines and signs saying if you stop you will be fined £100 !!!!. The whole place seems to be becoming very aggressive in its approach to life.
Where there's a will - -.?
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Wolverhampton
Posts: 0
Originally Posted by SWBKCB
Heaven forbid that an airport makes a profit! Why is that a bad thing?
EMA will likely make little money from their resident airlines (don't know about the freight side), so the money has to come, like it or not, from the 'punters' as you put it.
AFAIK there are bus services that run to and from EMA, if you dont want to pay for parking.
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: Nottingham
Posts: 18
Why do we not get another airline to replace TUI, checked Thomas Cook for next year no flights for Florida or Mexico, come on we have only had ONE flight each week to Florida and Mexico which has just about been packed each flight, personally i think that is disgusting, who is supposed to get attract NEW airlines, or do they just sit in their Ivory Towers
Join Date: Feb 2018
Location: Wales
Posts: 1,316
Originally Posted by Trev4521
Why do we not get another airline to replace TUI, checked Thomas Cook for next year no flights for Florida or Mexico, come on we have only had ONE flight each week to Florida and Mexico which has just about been packed each flight, personally i think that is disgusting, who is supposed to get attract NEW airlines, or do they just sit in their Ivory Towers
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: UK
Posts: 2,410
Originally Posted by Trev4521
Why do we not get another airline to replace TUI, checked Thomas Cook for next year no flights for Florida or Mexico, come on we have only had ONE flight each week to Florida and Mexico which has just about been packed each flight, personally i think that is disgusting, who is supposed to get attract NEW airlines, or do they just sit in their Ivory Towers
MAG are pouring millions into upgrading and improving Manchester (see the Manchester thread if you want to see what's being built) and it isn't beyond the realms of possibility that MAG's policy is to put their marketing efforts into bringing new / increased business to Manchester, and EMA, which really has got very little new investment in passengers facilities in recent times, the focus of cargo growth and development. I hope that isn't the case, but when you look at it, EMA is far too close to BHX to be able to attract the legacy carriers to offer connections to principal European and Middle East hubs, and given the failure of BHX to hold on to any of it's scheduled transatlantic services, EMA is even less likely to be able to do so.
EMA may have to be satisfied with organic, rather than meteoric growth, and to be a passenger airport that serves the bucket and spade brigade primarily, but be a global hub for cargo. And there's nothing to be ashamed of in that!
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Leicestershire
Age: 37
Posts: 145
Originally Posted by BHX5DME
Yes EMA a bit stagnant
They had a rolling 12m of 4,859,139 in Feb 2007 - 12 years ago !
They had a rolling 12m of 4,859,139 in Feb 2007 - 12 years ago !
Be interesting going forward as to what happens with Flybe under Virgin and the Scottish routes and AMS and of course the loss of the Long Haul next summer.
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Midlands
Age: 65
Posts: 6
Originally Posted by nuisance79
Parking Fees Reversed, Yipee!
Now we should all focus on the landside spectators bar re-opening 😃
Now we should all focus on the landside spectators bar re-opening 😃
