MANCHESTER - 9

[LAX_LHR]

Services that never were continued:

2007:

Kenyan 3 weekly NBO-CDG-MAN with B767-300
Austrian 3 daily VIE with F70
(Not much exciting this year)

2008:

Easyjet planned 3 based A319 with MAD/BFS/SXF amongst routes
FedEx nightly BFS-MAN-STN
Loganair daily DND
LOT 6 weekly WAW
Swiss 4 weekly year round GVA
Volare daily MXP
Qatar 15 weekly A330 to DOH
Air Syhlet 4 weekly VIE with A320 (dodged a bullet there)

2008 was the last year cancelled slots are shown in the reports, it only lists new operators from this point on. The ones listed are only the highlights, but all are viewable in the link below if you are interested and fancy some bedtime reading:

Airport Coordination Limited - Reports/Statistics - Manchester Airport

[Capetonian]

I seem to remember that probably some time in the late 80s, SAA had a weekly JNB-CDG-MAN service. Maybe it was just discussed and never happened?

[LAX_LHR]

SAA definitely did run a MAN flight, have many photo's of the SAA B747's at MAN, but someone else will have to give the details of the service as I don't remember where it ran to (CPT/JNB or both?) or how frequently.

[Logohu]

SAA did run once or twice weekly services Jo'burg/Paris/Manchester with 747-200s from 1997, but from memory it didn't last more than a couple of years.
Now they don't even serve Paris with their own aircraft, preferring instead to codeshare with their Star Alliance partners

[Skipness One Echo]

SAA was a B743 on a Tues and a few other days when I made a point of chasing it in 1991. Excuse me as I pick myself off the floor as I have just realised that was 22 years ago.
Tuesday was B747 day and my first flight (on a BA ATP) and my first visit to MAN. Highlights, all pre ME3 and Alliances of course :

AA55 B763 (still...)
BA183 L1011-200
BA118 B742 ISB-MAN-LGW
PK B742
SA B742
TS L1011
SQ B743
CX B744

[MARK9263]

Began a weekly flight on 27 March 1990 (Tues) as SAA228/9 operating to JNB VIA ORY.

Added a Sunday flight on 5th November 1993.

From 27th March 1994:
SAA226/7 Tue to JNB VIA CPT.
SAA228/9 Sun to JNB.

Last flight 30th August 1994 ZS-SAN SAA226/7.

[spannersatcx]

CX also operated a 343 via ZRH.

[nigel osborne]

Skipness One Echo,

Pretty sure BA used to operate another 747 route as well as Islammabad was it Delhi or can anyone else remember where it went ?

Also British Airtours 747s to Orlando although expect they were charters ?

The curse of Airline Alliances for spotters put pay to many long HAUL routes

Nigel

[roverman]

CX and SAA

Remembering some heady days in those previous posts, but things are not so bad today, Life is always interesting and changing at MAN, it's a rather unique and fascinating airport.

Will we ever see the likes of CX and SAA back? Here's my neck on the block...

CX - Yes (greater than evens chance) when A350s come into the fleet.

SAA - No (greater than evens chance), but possibly a direct JNB flight by an emerging African carrier.

[Skipness One Echo]

The Orlando route was later operated by BA on a LGW based B747. Didn't they also do HKG?

[Ringwayman]

BA converted the 2 weekly L1011 MAN originating service to 2 weekly service to 2 weekly service originating at LHR then moved it to LGW with same days and times as CX. other routes originating at LGW : JFK, Islamabad, Orlando and Barbados.

[Betablockeruk]

It's all in here somewhere

Ringway Publications - AIRLINE OPERATORS

Something to distract you from the bank holiday diy project.

[Capetonian]

but possibly a direct JNB flight by an emerging African carrier.

Pigs will fly sooner than a succesful African start up.

[Warrington-lad]

There is a partially new airline from africa that only started up last year called fastjet. If you look who it was set up by, pigs should be flying in the next few years.

and for those who cant be bothered typing in fastjet into a search engine it was established by Stelios, founder of easyjet.

[rutankrd]

Quote:

and for those who cant be bothered typing in fastjet into a search engine it was established by Stelios, founder of easyjet

And many doggy Lonrho and Chinese dealings behind the scenes however best not go there in a Manchester thread !:

[Skipness One Echo]

Son of a billionaire, Stelios' track record of succesful business ventures is much more miss than hit. He founded easyJet which his management team built into a pan European success, however he acts like it's his own personal toy and his recent petulant outbursts do him no credit.

If I started out with billions in the family war chest I bet I could do as well or better.

[nigel osborne]

Betablockeruk.

Thanks.. thats a great link ,looked at just 1 year so far 1986;

Yes was right, BA 747s Delhi and also Bombay via Hing Kong. Interesting to see KLM A310s listed Royal Air Maroc and a stack of Emery DC-8S on US cargo flights, to name just a few.

Look at some years more later.

Nigel

[LAX_LHR]

Interesting to see KLM A310s listed

Swissair also regularly used to operate the A310 to Manchester (Im sure they also used their B747-300 once too?), and more recently Lufthansa used to use the A300.

BA have tried many routes from MAN over the years. JFK, Toronto, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Islamabad, Delhi and fairly regular concorde charters to Barbados too, just to name a few.

[LAX_LHR]

In other news, Virgin are to rotate some of the LHR based A330-300 fleet (3 class aircraft) through MAN during September. VKSS/VSXY are to be reconfigured to 3 class so the A330's from LHR will be used on the morning Orlando until the B747 takes over from the winter season.

[nigel osborne]

LAX-LHR

Yes remember the Swiss A310s,sure I saw AF /A300/310s as well at MAN ?

Seemed such good days at many of our big airports , suppose with the low cost airlines today and alliances, they have destroyed so much diversity.

How boring is LHR for example now for spotters,nowhere to spot from inside and monotonous movements with hardly any aircraft surprises to keep us interested.

Progress I will be told by the youngsters no doubt.

Nigel