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"Air China Cargo on Saturday 06MAR10 launched 2 weekly Shanghai – Beijing – Copenhagen – Paris CDG – Shanghai flight, with Boeing 747-400 Freighter."
Guess we're not getting our flight back then
Guess we're not getting our flight back then
Well, in the absence of Cathay serving the largest Chinese community in the UK, and Chinese using any route ex MAN except CX codeshare via LHR, maybe Air China are thinking of a pax service from MAN which could also carry substantial cargo too.
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Air China and Cathay Pacific have just launched a joint venture cargo operation, hard to operate both on the same route.
Passenger flight will return when equipment is available in the right config.
Passenger flight will return when equipment is available in the right config.
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Trams extension back on track in £26m deal - Manchester Evening News
Metrolink is moving a step closer to the airport with the money allocated today.
Metrolink is moving a step closer to the airport with the money allocated today.
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Passenger flight will return when equipment is available in the right config.
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David Ottewell's Politics Blog Archive Manchester the new Heathrow?
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Manchester Airport 'to be as busy as Heathrow' - Manchester Evening News
Is it April 1st ?
Some idiot produces a report predicting that "an airport" will basically operate with the same aircraft using exactly the same fuel some 40 years hence...assuming I guess no changes in technology, design etc
..some prat is then stupid enough to comment on it..........!
..AND then lo and behold the idiots at the M.E.N then report on it !
I need a darkened room !
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Manchester Airport 'to be as busy as Heathrow' - Manchester Evening News
Is it April 1st ?
Some idiot produces a report predicting that "an airport" will basically operate with the same aircraft using exactly the same fuel some 40 years hence...assuming I guess no changes in technology, design etc
..some prat is then stupid enough to comment on it..........!
..AND then lo and behold the idiots at the M.E.N then report on it !
I need a darkened room !
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400's phasing out to freighters, 340 uneconomical, no 2 class 777 yet!
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I won't waste too many column inches seriously considering the fanciful notion that Manchester will ever be as big/busy as Heathrow - clearly ridiculous. On a different note though, how long are they going to be faffing around with the escalators from Terminal 1 to the Station? Strikes me it took less time to extend the Station.
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I too laughed at the prospect.
Facts.
UK population to remain at similar levels.
Holiday entitlement to remain static or reduce as economic realities bite and peoples pensions are affected.
Other airports would expand in direct proportion hence lower growth at Man if LBA, LPL didn't have competing users.
Long Haul??? The 787 isn't the answer.
Facts.
UK population to remain at similar levels.
Holiday entitlement to remain static or reduce as economic realities bite and peoples pensions are affected.
Other airports would expand in direct proportion hence lower growth at Man if LBA, LPL didn't have competing users.
Long Haul??? The 787 isn't the answer.
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I personally quickly dismissed this article as a standard attempt by climate change believers at getting more people onside with their campaign through their usual medium of exaggeration and scaremongering.
For once, the comments in the MEN article are *generally* quite sensible.
Manchester Airport 'to be as busy as Heathrow' - Manchester Evening News
For once, the comments in the MEN article are *generally* quite sensible.
Manchester Airport 'to be as busy as Heathrow' - Manchester Evening News
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What makes you think the A340 is uneconimical? It even operates the off peak LHR until the summer
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Sorry but I do not agree with your view on the JFK link -
it was a purely operational decision for BA - and sensible
for an airline in trouble.
it was a purely operational decision for BA - and sensible
for an airline in trouble.
BA1502/03 was one of the highest yielding flights in the BA network.
Walsh is the one who killed the regions, coupled with absolutely inept managment.
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Absolute and utter garbage.
BA1502/03 was one of the highest yielding flights in the BA network.
BA1502/03 was one of the highest yielding flights in the BA network.
I also doubt it is one of the 'highest yielding routes' when you compare it to some of the others.
Walsh is the one who killed the regions, coupled with absolutely inept managment.
If all those processes take place, air travel across the pond will never be the same again...
*I know the BA/IB deal is different to the DL/NW, being more of an AF/KL merger, but I was commenting on the superb process in which Delta were able to bind the two almost perfectly.
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Ex cargo clown
Having a single Int route remaining in the regions
MAN-JFK (no matter how successful) was obviously
a cost that BA management thought not economic
(enough!) for them. ie: it was an operational
decision - a bit like BMI took a year down the line.
MM
Having a single Int route remaining in the regions
MAN-JFK (no matter how successful) was obviously
a cost that BA management thought not economic
(enough!) for them. ie: it was an operational
decision - a bit like BMI took a year down the line.
MM
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Manchester February Traffic
Feb 2010 Pax - 1,047,855 down 10.57%
Feb 2010 Movements - 10,710 down 13.56%
12M end 28.02.10 Pax - 18,545,721 down 11.79%
12M end 28.02.10 Move - 168,380 down 15.46%
Feb 2010 Movements - 10,710 down 13.56%
12M end 28.02.10 Pax - 18,545,721 down 11.79%
12M end 28.02.10 Move - 168,380 down 15.46%
Feb 2010 pax figures
Down 10.5%... probably to be expected considering the weather conditions
Manchester Airport passenger numbers fell 10.5 per cent in February - Crain's Manchester Business
Manchester Airport passenger numbers fell 10.5 per cent in February - Crain's Manchester Business
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Yes, but >11% over the rolling 12 months suggests a more structural problem than just bad wx one month.
If we assume better weather would have brought better pax numbers, then perhaps a recovery is underway?
If we assume better weather would have brought better pax numbers, then perhaps a recovery is underway?
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I'm not surprised by the figures, this part of the world is struggling like hell at the moment.
I for one will not be taking any long haul flights this year.
Add to this the demise of XL and merging of Thomson etc. I can't see an improvement until the end of this year.
E.F.
I for one will not be taking any long haul flights this year.
Add to this the demise of XL and merging of Thomson etc. I can't see an improvement until the end of this year.
E.F.