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Someone needs to get the CEO at MAN out of bed to kick the web site operator up in the air, as according to that, UK airspace is still closed. 
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Someone needs to get the CEO at MAN out of bed to kick the web site operator up in the air, as according to that, UK airspace is still closed.
This page was last updated on Tuesday 20th April 2010 at 22:00
Airspace Restrictions Update
The Civil Aviation Authority has confirmed that UK airspace will be available from 22:00 today.
Pilot of the Airwaves
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All depends which page you look at.
Very simple....no flights listed! 
Live Flight Information - Arrivals
All flights in UK airspace are currently suspended.
All flights in UK airspace are currently suspended.
Live Flight Information - Departures
All flights in UK airspace are currently suspended.
For the latest news on the situation at the airport please check our home page.
All flights in UK airspace are currently suspended.
For the latest news on the situation at the airport please check our home page.
Due to the current disruption there are high volumes of visitors to our website. To ensure that all visitors are able to access the latest updates quickly we are presenting our website in a simplified manner to our usual web presence.
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Can people not read 
Yes it says this:
But is does say go to home page for the latest 
Yes it says this:
Live Flight Information - Arrivals
All flights in UK airspace are currently suspended.
For the latest news on the situation at the airport please check our home page.
All flights in UK airspace are currently suspended.
For the latest news on the situation at the airport please check our home page.
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Man website still showing "flights suspended" and go to home page, which says the same.
Friend going out today on Emirates. Emirates website showing EK 018 will be 40 mins late on departure at 1450hrs.
Methinks web site guy has slept in!
Friend going out today on Emirates. Emirates website showing EK 018 will be 40 mins late on departure at 1450hrs.
Methinks web site guy has slept in!
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ManOfMan, someone was pulling your leg. Ash doesn't get deposited directly into jet engines. There are many good explanations of what happens to ash in th e pages of this website.
Looking at your recent contributions makes me think. Are you against aviation? Manchester airport is suffering enough without silly rumors like yours, pal.
Buck up your ideas.
Regards from a fellow spotter.
Mr Bloggs, are you on drugs or can you not read ??? I said it was second hand and thats why i threw it to the wider audience, if you don't have an answer can i suggest that you Buck your ideas up ???
Yeah...I am dead against aviation, so much so that my company employs over 100 people in....you guessed it...the aviation industry !!!!
I suppose the TCX flight that returned last night was due to me being against aviation...nope was a build up of ash in the bleed valve...then we have the Tarom 737 from EHAM yesterday, the KLM from EHAM, the World MD11...the list goes on.
Suggest before you go chucking accusations around you read the posts properly....PAL
Looking at your recent contributions makes me think. Are you against aviation? Manchester airport is suffering enough without silly rumors like yours, pal.
Buck up your ideas.
Regards from a fellow spotter.
Mr Bloggs, are you on drugs or can you not read ??? I said it was second hand and thats why i threw it to the wider audience, if you don't have an answer can i suggest that you Buck your ideas up ???
Yeah...I am dead against aviation, so much so that my company employs over 100 people in....you guessed it...the aviation industry !!!!
I suppose the TCX flight that returned last night was due to me being against aviation...nope was a build up of ash in the bleed valve...then we have the Tarom 737 from EHAM yesterday, the KLM from EHAM, the World MD11...the list goes on.
Suggest before you go chucking accusations around you read the posts properly....PAL
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If you do not fit engine blanks to your a/c, Ash can well be deposited into the engines, especially as the Thomson a/c that flew in had been parked up in Iceland for 3 or 4 days.
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Total Disbelief
Ok guy, i used to have a respect for monarch. as a travel agent, always though that they were a very reliable, well trusted company.
unfortunately today, that has all gone out of the window.
had some friends booked on AGP - MAN flight that was cancelled due to the closure of the airspace. OK, fair enough, not Monarch's fault. However once airspace opens, monarch puts out a flight schedule and at 8am this morning managed to book my friends on the ZB9661 flight back this evening. even checked on the manchester airport website which clearly showed 2 monarch flights departed (ZB660 & ZB9660), within about half hour of each other. preparing to go and collect my friends from manchester, when i recieved a call from my friend saying they were at malaga, and the check in staff knew nothing of this flight (ZB9661), and only had details for the ZB661. more checks and more checks (unfortunately i was away from my PC, so could do nothing straight away). Trying to call monarch is a nightmare, where it will not allow you through (even after answering your call with a recorded message at 10p per minute). eventually got in the queue where after 30 mins on hold my mobile died. Got home and straight onto the landline at just after 8pm, to be advised that they are now closed!
my friends are now at the mercy of the handling agents in malaga, who might - only might - be able to get them on a flight to LGW, but even that is not certain. and once at gatwick, it's gonna take longer to get from gatwick to halifax than the flight itself.
anyone from Monarch care to comment on why my friends were rebooked onto an imaginary flight?
unfortunately today, that has all gone out of the window.
had some friends booked on AGP - MAN flight that was cancelled due to the closure of the airspace. OK, fair enough, not Monarch's fault. However once airspace opens, monarch puts out a flight schedule and at 8am this morning managed to book my friends on the ZB9661 flight back this evening. even checked on the manchester airport website which clearly showed 2 monarch flights departed (ZB660 & ZB9660), within about half hour of each other. preparing to go and collect my friends from manchester, when i recieved a call from my friend saying they were at malaga, and the check in staff knew nothing of this flight (ZB9661), and only had details for the ZB661. more checks and more checks (unfortunately i was away from my PC, so could do nothing straight away). Trying to call monarch is a nightmare, where it will not allow you through (even after answering your call with a recorded message at 10p per minute). eventually got in the queue where after 30 mins on hold my mobile died. Got home and straight onto the landline at just after 8pm, to be advised that they are now closed!
my friends are now at the mercy of the handling agents in malaga, who might - only might - be able to get them on a flight to LGW, but even that is not certain. and once at gatwick, it's gonna take longer to get from gatwick to halifax than the flight itself.
anyone from Monarch care to comment on why my friends were rebooked onto an imaginary flight?
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Extra Singapore Airlines service tomorrow - arrrives 0615, departs 1120 and looks like Cathay Pacific operating a passenger service: CX2258 showing for arriving 1630.
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been a while since bmibaby featured, so to make up for it, expansion being talked about by them with 5 to 7 routes and 2 more based aircraft.
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The plan was to operate extra flts into Euroland to try and pickup stranded pax from a few places, was to be a 777, slot was applied for.
However after a rethink 2 extra sectors are now being flown to AMS instead.
There will be an extra CX flt tomorrow though the 037 instead of going to LHR will now go to MAN to free up a slot at LHR, the 037 is a freighter by the way.
However after a rethink 2 extra sectors are now being flown to AMS instead.
There will be an extra CX flt tomorrow though the 037 instead of going to LHR will now go to MAN to free up a slot at LHR, the 037 is a freighter by the way.
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Typical. Found the would be outbound sector as CX2259 leaving at 1950.
Instead, we can perhaps think of Thai incase they can't secure slots at LHR as that's what they stated they are contemplating doing - might be likely given that the SQ flight numbers tally up quite nicely with their LHR operations and have indicated that they weren't able to secure slots to operate it into LHR.
Instead, we can perhaps think of Thai incase they can't secure slots at LHR as that's what they stated they are contemplating doing - might be likely given that the SQ flight numbers tally up quite nicely with their LHR operations and have indicated that they weren't able to secure slots to operate it into LHR.
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Shame, would have been nice to see a CX B773 at MAN.
Heres to hoping Thai need extra slots and SQ requires extra uplift....
Heres to hoping Thai need extra slots and SQ requires extra uplift....
Last edited by wanna_be_there; 22nd Apr 2010 at 20:52. Reason: re-typing reply
Had a friend stuck in Dubai for several days with Emirates.
Despite having hundreds of stranded people bound for Newcastle & Manchester all the extra flights (there were several) EK put all of them into Gatwick.
Pax were told if you accept the Gatwick flt then you are on your own after that.
Pretty disapointing that none of the extras were routed into MAN.
Having spent 5 days in Dubai, including 2 days at the airport, they were in effect dumped at Gatwick at midnight.
Despite having hundreds of stranded people bound for Newcastle & Manchester all the extra flights (there were several) EK put all of them into Gatwick.
Pax were told if you accept the Gatwick flt then you are on your own after that.
Pretty disapointing that none of the extras were routed into MAN.
Having spent 5 days in Dubai, including 2 days at the airport, they were in effect dumped at Gatwick at midnight.
