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If the journey is on a single ticket/single fare, then APD will apply as normal. Buying two tickets at seperate fares will avoid longhaul APD but will be more expensive and will not guarantee connections
Anyway, wish MSE luck with getting this off the ground.
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When I last resided in UK my local airport, some mere 2 to 3 miles down the road, was CWL where KLM have the monopoly on international business travel in their AMS/CWL/AMS service.
Despite being a Londoner by birth I will avoid travelling thru LHR with a vengeance, I hate travelling thru the place, and over recent years I have used BHX extensively and, since relocating back to S. Wales, CWL once or twice.
In 2010 I travelled to/from Philippines, KLM had a reasonable fare from/to CWL, more expensive than fares with other carriers from LHR/LGW but not so much more expensive taking in to consideration the buggeration factor of National Express etc, thus I travelled from/to my doorstep airport of CWL.
Yet last year, when travelling to Philippines, KLM fares were so damn expensive I couldn't justify the expenditure and for some £200 cheaper CX got my business out of, my hated, LHR and I got to fly 4 engines long haul and with a mere 1hr connection thru HKG.
The point I am making is that just because KLM may, and I say "may", come and frequent MSE don't think for one minute that most of Kent, East Sussex, wherever are going to come rushing to travel the world from a KLM monopolised MSE, like me they're going to be shopping around for price and schedule and many of them will continue trotting across to LHR, LGW etc. and it is likely, as with KLM's LPL service, that any KLM MSE service will fail.
Despite being a Londoner by birth I will avoid travelling thru LHR with a vengeance, I hate travelling thru the place, and over recent years I have used BHX extensively and, since relocating back to S. Wales, CWL once or twice.
In 2010 I travelled to/from Philippines, KLM had a reasonable fare from/to CWL, more expensive than fares with other carriers from LHR/LGW but not so much more expensive taking in to consideration the buggeration factor of National Express etc, thus I travelled from/to my doorstep airport of CWL.
Yet last year, when travelling to Philippines, KLM fares were so damn expensive I couldn't justify the expenditure and for some £200 cheaper CX got my business out of, my hated, LHR and I got to fly 4 engines long haul and with a mere 1hr connection thru HKG.
The point I am making is that just because KLM may, and I say "may", come and frequent MSE don't think for one minute that most of Kent, East Sussex, wherever are going to come rushing to travel the world from a KLM monopolised MSE, like me they're going to be shopping around for price and schedule and many of them will continue trotting across to LHR, LGW etc. and it is likely, as with KLM's LPL service, that any KLM MSE service will fail.
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According to the Manston Movements website, KLM have hired the Canterbury Cathedral Lodge for "an important announcement" on November 13th 
Sorry, just teasing.
Could it be announced next week?
Daily flights from Manston Airport to Amsterdam seem 'done deal' | This is Kent
Daily flights from Manston Airport to Amsterdam seem 'done deal' | This is Kent
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KLM announce MSE-AMS
2 x daily AMS from April now confirmed:
BBC News - New twice-daily flights from Manston to Amsterdam
BBC News - New twice-daily flights from Manston to Amsterdam
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The aircraft type will be the Fokker 70 - and here are the schedules:
KL1516 MSE-AMS 0635-0835
KL1519 AMS-MSE 1010-1005
KL1520 MSE-AMS 1040-1235
KL1523 AMS-MSE 2050-2045
KL1516 MSE-AMS 0635-0835
KL1519 AMS-MSE 1010-1005
KL1520 MSE-AMS 1040-1235
KL1523 AMS-MSE 2050-2045
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The 0635 departure will contravene the council's night flying policy - will be interesting to see how that is resolved. And the schedule will put severe pressure on staffing resources at the airport, especially ATC/fire/ops - expect to see periods in the middle of the day when they don't provide radar and reduce the fire cover significantly.
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