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Suzeman,
It's on his Twitter, this is the response to someone who asked for his opinion on the Manchester Hainan flights:
It's on his Twitter, this is the response to someone who asked for his opinion on the Manchester Hainan flights:
@Paul_Kehoe: @paulie286 it's amazing what £12m UK Govt support can get you. That's what's required to fund the Northern Po'rhouse air route development.
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Suzeman,
It's on his Twitter, this is the response to someone who asked for his opinion on the Manchester Hainan flights:
Quote:
@Paul_Kehoe: @paulie286 it's amazing what £12m UK Govt support can get you. That's what's required to fund the Northern Po'rhouse air route development.
It's on his Twitter, this is the response to someone who asked for his opinion on the Manchester Hainan flights:
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@Paul_Kehoe: @paulie286 it's amazing what £12m UK Govt support can get you. That's what's required to fund the Northern Po'rhouse air route development.
Can't find it on his Twitter feed - maybe private or deleted? Nothing on paulie286 either.
But entirely unprofessional on a public forum anyway.
Just as a matter of interest, the BHX Aviation Development Director used to work for MAN and was the slot co-ordinator there for some time
https://uk.linkedin.com/pub/william-pearson/17/67/b5b
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It's still there suzeman, posted 10 hours ago.
In terms of Hainan, he told a Chinese reporter (will try and find the link again), that Beijing is likely to go daily very quickly, Shanghai the next logical link, but, then he may look at linking unserved cities from the UK to China, he named Shenzen, Xa'in, Chongqing and Wuhan as possible links from Manchester.
Xa'in is served by Hainan from Paris, Chongqing from Rome.
Seems a bold strategy, but, could be a positive one from Manchester.
In terms of Hainan, he told a Chinese reporter (will try and find the link again), that Beijing is likely to go daily very quickly, Shanghai the next logical link, but, then he may look at linking unserved cities from the UK to China, he named Shenzen, Xa'in, Chongqing and Wuhan as possible links from Manchester.
Xa'in is served by Hainan from Paris, Chongqing from Rome.
Seems a bold strategy, but, could be a positive one from Manchester.
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From a longer-term perspective these destinations are not as outlandish as they appear at first glance. The rapidly-growing heavily-industrialised Chongqing City Region has a population of 30 million inhabitants and is the terminus for most of the popular Yangtze River Cruises - one of China's "must do" experiences. Wuhan - population 10 million - is Manchester's twin city as well as being an industrial powerhouse. Xi An - home to the Terracotta Army - is one of the world's top tourist sites, and when you visit the place it is amazing just how much still remains to be excavated. Shenzhen - another massive industrial metropolis, but maybe a bit close to Hong Kong from an air service viewpoint?
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Nuclear power stations and direct flights to China and all after just a pint with David Cameron! Perhaps we should offer him a tour of Guinness Brewery over here. Nice result for you all over there well done.
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I'm not sure there is any political mileage for GO "locally " but fair play to the man certainly upping Manchester's profile nationally and internationally. Not something he needed to do but has done.....
Never misses an opportunity to promote Manchester. ..
I never thought I would see the day !
Take note Graham Stringer and Graham Brady.
Never misses an opportunity to promote Manchester. ..
I never thought I would see the day !
Take note Graham Stringer and Graham Brady.
Plenty of political mileage in it for GO. He is pressing the Northern Powerhouse as his pet project. With one eye on his credentials to be the next PM and to woo voters up North, it now needs to do well
Of course it all went sour in June when McLoughlin paused the Trans-Pennine electrification rail development and people, particularly Labour politicians from the North, started to refer to it as the Northern Powercut. The press got in on the ribbing too as did Jeremy Corbyn more recently.
An article in this month's Rail Magazine (unable to link it) alleges that GO eventually became fed up and instructed DfT to unpause the electrification (which has caused Network Rail all sorts of problems) in order to give his plans credibility
So GO wants evidence that the Northern Powerhouse is starting to work and voila - investment at MAN and a new Chinese route. Here's a tweet from the MEN reporter at Xi's announcement at the Airport
Mr Xi is bigging up the 'Northern Powerhouse'. George will be pleased. Says Manchester and China relations will prosper.
So there is a lot riding on this for GO both nationally and locally.
I agree with you that it is good to see this type of promotion of MAN; one that as you say some local MPs etc have been entirely quiet about publicly in recent years. But it is obvious that there has been a lot going on behind the scenes involving the local councils, business and national Government to get things to this stage. Who would have thought the official announcement of a new air route at MAN would ever be made by a president?
And some good reaction from various business organisations to the new Beijing service.
Health Warning for Bagso - this includes Visit Britain who say the following
Sally Balcombe, chief executive, said: “Making it easier for people to get to Britain by building air route connectivity is crucial to driving tourism numbers, including from new growth markets such as China where key competitors such as France and Germany have much more seat capacity. The launch of this new route is all about increasing the number of international visitors to Manchester and also promoting it as a regional gateway to explore the north of England.
“Today’s launch, coming on top of the changes to visitor visas for Chinese tourists announced this week, is another step in further improving our competitive tourism offering as the destination of choice for the rapidly-growing Chinese market, the world’s largest outbound market, and to inspire more visitors to travel here and explore all our nations and regions.”
“Today’s launch, coming on top of the changes to visitor visas for Chinese tourists announced this week, is another step in further improving our competitive tourism offering as the destination of choice for the rapidly-growing Chinese market, the world’s largest outbound market, and to inspire more visitors to travel here and explore all our nations and regions.”
And finally here's the MEN report about the special China Cluster to be set up at Airport City to provide exclusive space within the Enterprise Zone for Chinese companies wanting to set up in the UK
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....-130m-10321318
More positive words about the Northern Powerhouse in this too
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It's on his Twitter, this is the response to someone who asked for his opinion on the Manchester Hainan flights:
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@Paul_Kehoe: @paulie286 it's amazing what £12m UK Govt support can get you. That's what's required to fund the Northern Po'rhouse air route development.
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@Paul_Kehoe: @paulie286 it's amazing what £12m UK Govt support can get you. That's what's required to fund the Northern Po'rhouse air route development.
Oh right, they are unsubstantiated, petty and childish rants
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Further health warning for Bagso:
Please have heart pills to hand before reading further......
BBC News channel has been running the announcement of Manchester to China flights on the continuous tacker tape at the bottom of the screen for some hours. Now THAT'S publicity for you
Please have heart pills to hand before reading further......
BBC News channel has been running the announcement of Manchester to China flights on the continuous tacker tape at the bottom of the screen for some hours. Now THAT'S publicity for you
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The issue with the tweet, is that is isn't the first time he has taken to unprovoked 'slagging off' quotes on Twitter and media. If ever your bored, take a look through some of historical tweets and media quotes. There are some real gems.
So yes, I stand by my rants comment.
The issue with the tweet, is that is isn't the first time he has taken to unprovoked 'slagging off' quotes on Twitter and media. If ever your bored, take a look through some of historical tweets and media quotes. There are some real gems.
So yes, I stand by my rants comment.
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BBC News channel has been running the announcement of Manchester to China flights on the continuous tacker tape at the bottom of the screen for some hours. Now THAT'S publicity for you
Sorry to be a pedant but it shouldn't be difficult to be accurate especially when there is plenty of advance warning.
Overall though, some great publicity for the city and the airport.
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I do wish someone had told them to slip the word 'mainland' before China when highlighting Hainan's were the first direct flights from a UK airport outside London. In fairness to Birmingham, they probably should have added 'schedule' as well.
The northern powerhouse isnt really northern though is it? Bit of a con for the rest of the UK I'd think...
Where's Manchester then ? The South ? The Midlands ?
eggc, the Midlands is accurate
In the same way that Scotland is a suburb of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, then? ;-)
Where's Manchester then ? The South ? The Midlands ?
eggc, the Midlands is accurate
In the same way that Scotland is a suburb of Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, then? ;-)
And of course "devolution" on Tyneside and Teeside was also announced today...So catching up on Graham K north of the Border who is obviously interested in the fortunes of Woolsington...
Curious to know is the 12 million thing accurate?
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Think we would all be interested to know what Kehoe is referring to. Perhaps he should explain it - can someone tweet him and ask?
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MANFOD - don't swallow the BHX line please. To be even more pedantic, don't forget that Airtours operated a season of MAN - Sanaa charter flights some years ago.
As for Mr Kehoe, could he be regarded as the Jose Marinho of aviation perhaps? Doesn't seem to go out of his way to court popularity outside of Birmingham, but at the end of the day he'll be measured on achievements and those of his Aviation Development team at BHX. As you pointed out in a recent post, the latter is headed by a former MAN executive, formerly with ACL, who seems to be doing rather well winning new services and airline operators.
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Graham K makes a genuine point - in the North East the "Northern Powerhouse" seems a bit M62 corridor-centric, with little impact north of Leeds. Anyway, back to Ringway.
