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Old 7th Jun 2012, 22:41
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BMI services to Heathrow to become operated by BA at the end of June / early July. Not sure which as Wikipeda (yep) says on heathrow page its 27th June whilst manchester page says its 3rd July.
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Old 7th Jun 2012, 22:51
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Jet2 service to Split now goes twice weekly for Summer 2013.
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Old 8th Jun 2012, 13:23
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You cannot put contaminated fuel on a aircraft. The fuel was contaminated at source i.e the refinery, nothing to do with the airport. As Pwalhx has already asked you what would you have you done.
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Old 9th Jun 2012, 10:55
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MON305 MAN-SFB

This mornings MON305 to SFB (I believe G-SMAN) that was due to go at 0915 is delayed....heavily! No information available yet to passengers but I've heard they could be kept overnight and go tomorrow instead. There is an issue with the oil in one of the engines apparently...

Edit #1: Metal was present in one of the engines oil supply, samples were taken and it was finally fixed.

Edit #2: MON305 finally on its way, airborne at 2031.

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Old 10th Jun 2012, 17:36
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Cool

Sounds like a routine MCD check, when you find metal on them they then need to be sent for analysis to find out what metal it is, which can then determine where it came from, and depending on whence it came will determine what your actions will be.

It is quite common to find 'bits' in a new engine.
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Old 11th Jun 2012, 19:26
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May 2012 passenger stats are out.

Down 1.2% in May.

Not sure how it comes to down 4% over the year though, is that a mistake?

From memory the moving year total was up a couple of % in April. Have some very +ve numbers for May 2011 just dropped out?
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Old 11th Jun 2012, 19:35
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don't forget only 1 bank holiday in May. Having a double bank holiday in June probably made it easier for schools to shift the half-term holiday into June. Will be interesting to see what June's figures are like (I have noticed that non-MAN normal style Thomas Cook flight numbers have been appearing i.e. beginning 1, 3 and 8 in addition to the regular ones beginning with 2) so perhaps the sharp drop in charter traffic may not be replicated.


Turkish Airlines have gone public on going 2 daily next year, with a medium term potential for 3 daily. Interestingly, they've not ruled out ops to Liverpool but not for a few years.
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Old 11th Jun 2012, 19:38
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Ah, good point.

May 2011 we had 3 bank holidays (Royal wedding) May 2012 we had one as the second bank holiday moved for the jubilee.

Still, May was only down 1.2% yet the year moving total is down ~4%.

I reckon it should be + ~4% and they have made a mistake.
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Old 11th Jun 2012, 19:43
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Bank Holidays

In 2011 there were only 2 bank holidays in May. The Royal Wedding was on the last Friday in April.
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Old 11th Jun 2012, 20:23
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Turkish Airlines have gone public on going 2 daily next year, with a medium term potential for 3 daily. Interestingly, they've not ruled out ops to Liverpool but not for a few years.
Whats your source with regards to Liverpool?
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Old 11th Jun 2012, 20:34
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Source of the TK increase for MAN and possible LPL route.

Last line of the article.
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Old 11th Jun 2012, 21:52
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Using the airports own monthly figures, the moving annual terminal passengers are:

dom 02,232,478 -01.11%
int 11,926,622 +12.38%
cht 04,990,781 -06.97%
pvt 00,005,010 +72.70%
tot 19,154,981 +05.03%


i.e. reverse the plus and minus signs on what they've issued and you end up with the correct figures.
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Old 11th Jun 2012, 22:00
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Aye, thought they'd gone wrong somewhere.
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Old 13th Jun 2012, 08:41
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splash and dases

Lots of LS and EZY flights going via EMA, BRS , LBA, DRS etc to pick up extra fuel.........
Out of interest, how long would a quick hop to LBA take from MAN and at what altitude/speed ?
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Old 13th Jun 2012, 10:37
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Norwegian has announced a new route from Manchester to Stockholm (Arlanda), eff. from 1st November, 4 times weekly with 738 equipment.

DY4479 ARN1045 – 1210MAN 73H 145
DY4481 ARN1825 – 1950MAN 73H 7

DY4480 MAN1240 – 1605ARN 73H 145
DY4482 MAN2020 – 2345ARN 73H 7
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Old 13th Jun 2012, 10:55
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Ref the Leeds to Man local flight. The time would vary according to runway in use but somewhere around 15-20 minutes. The max level maybe FL70-90 and speed 220-240kts for a jet.
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Old 13th Jun 2012, 16:46
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MAN-LBA

Ref the Leeds to Man local flight. The time would vary according to runway in use but somewhere around 15-20 minutes. The max level maybe FL70-90 and speed 220-240kts for a jet.
Using playback on Flightradar24, two flights last Thursday morning took just over 15 minutes - taking off towards the west and landing from the north. EXS801M reached FL54, EXS9611 peaked at FL70.
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Old 13th Jun 2012, 17:09
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Norwegian

DY likely to become a big player considering their recent mega aircraft orders. Looks like they are aiming to become a Nordic 'Ryanair' with bases across Europe - there can't be business for 300+ aircraft in Scandinavia alone. Watch out FR, EZY etc. That famous outburst from the Norwegian football commentator could be updated ....

'Lord Nelson, Maggie Thatcher, Winston Churchill, Michael O'Leary, Stelios....we gave your boys a real good beating!

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Old 13th Jun 2012, 17:13
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DY likely to become a big player considering their recent mega aircraft orders. Looks like they are aiming to become a Nordic 'Ryanair' with bases across Europe - there can't be business for 300+ aircraft in Scandinavia alone. Watch out FR, EZY etc. That famous outburst from the Norwegian football commentator could be updated ....
I remember reading somewhere that Norwegian was the third largest low cost carrier in Europe. Anyway nice to see a new route and I hope they will introduce more
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Old 13th Jun 2012, 18:53
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Revised pax numbers for May are now out.


Official comment:
"The charter market remains challenging for many of our airlines. However, boosted by the Jubilee weekend and the later than usual spring half-term school holidays, we anticipate that June will be a stronger month for the charter operators, as the continued strength of the pound in Europe offers holidaymakers incentive to book last-minute deals"
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