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harbour cotter - get onto Martin Lewis with those money saving tips!
No seriously, you do have a point. I would also happily travel around the UK to get the best deal but your South America routing did astound me, mainly because Iberia was involved! Worst long haul airline in Europe?
Avianca is far superior - anyway - keep it up with the money saving!
No seriously, you do have a point. I would also happily travel around the UK to get the best deal but your South America routing did astound me, mainly because Iberia was involved! Worst long haul airline in Europe?
Avianca is far superior - anyway - keep it up with the money saving!
Car parking
25 minutes this afternoon to get from Level 3 T1 Multi storey car park to exit barrier. With pax 16% down, If you're thinking of parking in T1 MSCP this summer, maybe think again.?
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Jet2 boss criticises Leeds Bradford expansion plans : Leeds Bradford Airport News Stories
Why doesn't he mention MAN in the same light who have probably taken it even further?
Economies of scale?
Why doesn't he mention MAN in the same light who have probably taken it even further?
Economies of scale?
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While Manchester Airport has lots of flights to lots of destinations, I tend to choose to fly from my local airport, Newcastle, to save both time and money. At three hours each way on the train and a return fare of £68.30, the slog down to MAN and back is rarely worth it. I wouldn't say that Manchester's catchment area is the whole of the North of England and Southern Scotland; it is more anywhere from where it takes less effort to get to a viable alternative. If there's no convenient flight from NCL, I'll route via AMS or CDG, or try EDI. However, it does, in my view, include places from where you can fly to Manchester to make connections. Thus while I'd say that Newcastle is not within comfortable reach of Manchester Airport, places with regular air links to it, like the Isle of Man, Aberdeen and Belfast, are. I remember that many years ago, a Newcastle-Manchester flight was part of the Dan Air City Link service. Bring that back, someone, and I'll use it.
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25 minutes this afternoon to get from Level 3 T1 Multi storey car park to exit barrier
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Ryanair are dropping the Manchester to Shannon service from the end of October and transferring the frequencies to Liverpool to make the Liverpool to Shannon service a Daily operation once again.
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What is it with Copenhagen?! I doubt all three will remain. I would hazard a guess that Norwegian will be the losers on this route. SK have the transfer passengers (although they have been operating the CRJ much more lately) and U2 are well...U2.
Oslo should be a winner - maybe bring the fares down a touch!
Oslo should be a winner - maybe bring the fares down a touch!
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Just saw another Saudi 747 freighter going past the window.
Seem to have been several in and out of MAN over the the past couple of months.
It's not a scheduled service, so I assume it's just a series of charters. What are they bringing in or taking out?
Seem to have been several in and out of MAN over the the past couple of months.
It's not a scheduled service, so I assume it's just a series of charters. What are they bringing in or taking out?
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Times have been rough recently but MAN is set to retake its destiny - to be the principal international gateway to the world from the North of England, Scotland and the Midlands. No other airport outside London can match its accessibility. The tin pot airports have had a good ride on the back of the lo-co boom
For those interested in the EK rumours (for which I am not, actually, as I do not like them), I was sat next to a Senior Purser who was ID90'ing on a flight recently. She told me MAN will get a third daily with a three class 77W with 8 x F seats. I expressed scepticism about the F market ex-MAN, but she said with only 8 seats they thought it worth a try.
Slightly annoyed to see MAN revert back to type after a few decent arrival experiences. Arrived back from BKK on LX via ZRH yesterday, to be greeted with a chocka passageway from the C pier at T1 due to a bucket & spade with all the idiots disembarking at the same time as us. Of course, MAN didn't let us down and the travellators were out. On to of this there was a leak in the roof half way down to immigration, so on top of everyone being forced down the narrow walkway, it then got more chaotic as everyone had to walk around the plastic document box (they obviously couldn't find a bucket) that they had put there to catch the water.
Even the bucket & spade lot thought it was ridiculous, and you've reached the bottom when they start moaning.
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It`s not only Manchester airport that is leaking, I think all the buckets have been pinched to keep our floor dry where I work and the roof was only re-done 2 years ago
Flat roofs are a waste of time and the first sign of any rain drip drip but this week was something else it was more like a water fall.
Ian B
Flat roofs are a waste of time and the first sign of any rain drip drip but this week was something else it was more like a water fall.
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MANFlyer,
With due respect, I feel compelled to point out that having commenced your posting by admonishing another contributor for expressing a slightly inflammatory point of view, you - in the very same posting - dismiss all vacation travelers as 'bucket and spade idiots.' I will resist the temptation to say, "Grow up kid, you'll be spitting next!" :-)
But seriously, do you believe that vacationers have less right to travel than anybody else? Do you not recognize that the customers who can afford holidays are those who have worked hard to earn that privilege? Does Mr. Smith deserve contempt when he arrives back from holiday on Sunday, but respect when he departs for Zurich on business the following day?
I put it to you that it is not desirable to develop a two-tier approach to MAN's customers with arriving passengers from Palma treated as a nuisance and those from Chicago considered the aristocracy. Because the problem is that these are the *same* people on different days; if they adjudge the airport harshly from their Palma experience they will avoid its allures when booking business travel to Chicago.
The airport is absolutely right to treat all its customers with equal respect. After all, do you consider yourself to have suddenly morphed into an idiot when you decide to take a hard-earned holiday rather than a business trip? No personal offence intended.
Cheers, SHED.
With due respect, I feel compelled to point out that having commenced your posting by admonishing another contributor for expressing a slightly inflammatory point of view, you - in the very same posting - dismiss all vacation travelers as 'bucket and spade idiots.' I will resist the temptation to say, "Grow up kid, you'll be spitting next!" :-)
But seriously, do you believe that vacationers have less right to travel than anybody else? Do you not recognize that the customers who can afford holidays are those who have worked hard to earn that privilege? Does Mr. Smith deserve contempt when he arrives back from holiday on Sunday, but respect when he departs for Zurich on business the following day?
I put it to you that it is not desirable to develop a two-tier approach to MAN's customers with arriving passengers from Palma treated as a nuisance and those from Chicago considered the aristocracy. Because the problem is that these are the *same* people on different days; if they adjudge the airport harshly from their Palma experience they will avoid its allures when booking business travel to Chicago.
The airport is absolutely right to treat all its customers with equal respect. After all, do you consider yourself to have suddenly morphed into an idiot when you decide to take a hard-earned holiday rather than a business trip? No personal offence intended.
Cheers, SHED.
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Have to agree MANflyer. Arrived last night into MAN on the evening EK flight, amongst the first Y class pax off thanks to steps and a bus at the rear door, zipped through immigration iris scan, then had to wait an hour for bags.
The problem seems to be the teminal one baggage carousels, which have a (very clever) switch which prevents bags being delivered onto the carousel if the space is already occupied. Unfortunately the system setting is too crude, and a gap of about three yards is needed to deliver one bag, resulting in the carousel rapidly becoming "full", with about 20 bags on board. Pax started to offload unclaimed bags themselves, which improved things but it still took forever. And this is with a two-thirds empty 777 - a full A380 will be fun.
EK groundstaff were present, but were more concerned with locating the crew bags than helping pax.
Incidentally, how long do EK crew layover in MAN? They seem to need more luggage than I need for two weeks in India.
The problem seems to be the teminal one baggage carousels, which have a (very clever) switch which prevents bags being delivered onto the carousel if the space is already occupied. Unfortunately the system setting is too crude, and a gap of about three yards is needed to deliver one bag, resulting in the carousel rapidly becoming "full", with about 20 bags on board. Pax started to offload unclaimed bags themselves, which improved things but it still took forever. And this is with a two-thirds empty 777 - a full A380 will be fun.
EK groundstaff were present, but were more concerned with locating the crew bags than helping pax.
Incidentally, how long do EK crew layover in MAN? They seem to need more luggage than I need for two weeks in India.
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After 45 years of world wide travel I can assure you there are far more obnoxious passengers that travel business class, than on all the lo-cost and charter flights put together. What is it with these business class tickets that makes people so full of their own self importance.
After 45 years of world wide travel I can assure you there are far more obnoxious passengers that travel business class, than on all the lo-cost and charter flights put together. What is it with these business class tickets that makes people so full of their own self importance.