Manston Reactivating ?
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OK, it could simply be a slow news day and Mail Online has only just discovered this, but this article in the Mail Online today kinda confirms earlier reports.-
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Personally I love the plan, I can get there in the same time it takes to travel to Gatwick but park right outside the terminal and walk across the road into the terminal. A simple stroll through the terminal and back to the car on the way back, this was where the real time was gained over Gatwick. I liked EUJet, and it was a shame they couldnt sustain it. Sadly the catchment area being only a slice of the pizza rather than the whole circle means it only serves Kent for passengers, and even the new station may be no closer than Ramsgate to the actual terminal and wont serve freight trains so they missed the point there. Almost get the idea that Network Rail were already counting their chickens with the housing development on Manston.
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Personally I love the plan, I can get there in the same time it takes to travel to Gatwick but park right outside the terminal and walk across the road into the terminal. A simple stroll through the terminal and back to the car on the way back, this was where the real time was gained over Gatwick. I liked EUJet, and it was a shame they couldnt sustain it. Sadly the catchment area being only a slice of the pizza rather than the whole circle means it only serves Kent for passengers, and even the new station may be no closer than Ramsgate to the actual terminal and wont serve freight trains so they missed the point there. Almost get the idea that Network Rail were already counting their chickens with the housing development on Manston.
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I propose to set up a virtual airline using 19 seater planes hired from people you've never heard of (at least not in a good way) to serve an initial network of Manston to Anglesey, Blackpool, Cambridge, Carlisle, Coventry, Doncaster, Gloucester, Oxford, Plymouth, Sheffield City, Shoreham & Swansea. The first international routes will be Galway and Waterford, but transatlantic and Asian routes will start once I I mean we order my fleet of 787s.
Funding will be provided by advance ticket sales, prepayments for training, supplier credit terms, and a mystery foreign funder Mr Nexiste-Pas.
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I propose to set up a virtual airline using 19 seater planes hired from people you've never heard of (at least not in a good way) to serve an initial network of Manston to Anglesey, Blackpool, Cambridge, Carlisle, Coventry, Doncaster, Gloucester, Oxford, Plymouth, Sheffield City, Shoreham & Swansea. The first international routes will be Galway and Waterford, but transatlantic and Asian routes will start once I I mean we order my fleet of 787s.
Funding will be provided by advance ticket sales, prepayments for training, supplier credit terms, and a mystery foreign funder Mr Nexiste-Pas.
Did I miss anything out?
Funding will be provided by advance ticket sales, prepayments for training, supplier credit terms, and a mystery foreign funder Mr Nexiste-Pas.
Did I miss anything out?
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I miss the Good Doctor and his mad pro-Manston posts...................
I propose to set up a virtual airline using 19 seater planes hired from people you've never heard of (at least not in a good way) to serve an initial network of Manston to Anglesey, Blackpool, Cambridge, Carlisle, Coventry, Doncaster, Gloucester, Oxford, Plymouth, Sheffield City, Shoreham & Swansea. The first international routes will be Galway and Waterford, but transatlantic and Asian routes will start once I I mean we order my fleet of 787s.
Funding will be provided by advance ticket sales, prepayments for training, supplier credit terms, and a mystery foreign funder Mr Nexiste-Pas.
Did I miss anything out?
Funding will be provided by advance ticket sales, prepayments for training, supplier credit terms, and a mystery foreign funder Mr Nexiste-Pas.
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Can I suggest you call it FlyBe3
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I propose to set up a virtual airline using 19 seater planes hired from people you've never heard of (at least not in a good way) to serve an initial network of Manston to Anglesey, Blackpool, Cambridge, Carlisle, Coventry, Doncaster, Gloucester, Oxford, Plymouth, Sheffield City, Shoreham & Swansea. The first international routes will be Galway and Waterford, but transatlantic and Asian routes will start once I I mean we order my fleet of 787s.
Funding will be provided by advance ticket sales, prepayments for training, supplier credit terms, and a mystery foreign funder Mr Nexiste-Pas.
Did I miss anything out?
Funding will be provided by advance ticket sales, prepayments for training, supplier credit terms, and a mystery foreign funder Mr Nexiste-Pas.
Did I miss anything out?
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I can only wish; but they are inspirational heroes. I don't intend to get involved in the lucrative Manston - Channel Islands market as that's likely to end in a competitive bloodbath for me.
Another of my heroes. I'm hoping that if I can get him onto the team he'll help me break into the Asian market.
Excellent suggestion. My working name was Fly Alpharcity Whoodwinx3, but to be honest I am finding it looks better on the mockups of the A380s that we're planning to use in the longer term than on the launch Let L-410.
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I’m working on a project to launch a new virtual airline utilising Hungarian registered props to re-establish London links to Chateauroux, Vatry and Dole. Manston is my last chance of being taken seriously by airport bosses.
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This is the kind of foresight that aviation really needs at the moment. Chateauroux has a population of over 40,000, and is more than 200km from the coast. If only 0.5% of the population decided to go the the beach at Margate every week then that would guarantee a load factor of more than 80% on a double daily (once saturday) J32. That's before considering tourists to London, outbound tourism, freight and of course the future possibility of easy Eurostar connections to Paris if the Ashford stop is reinstated. The potential is immense.
Surely you should be considering a hub at Prestwick?
And there is no service to Kalingrad from the UK - a MASSIVE market just waiting to be filled!!!
And there is no service to Kalingrad from the UK - a MASSIVE market just waiting to be filled!!!
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You’re all missing the major market opportunity. While there’s no Thames crossing east of Dartford, a shuttle every 30 minutes between Manston and Southend would be a sure fire winner.
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I would agree with you, I believe there was once a regular service between Southend and Rochester that proved popular. Only problem is the Lower Thames Crossing should be open by the end of the decade. Personally, I’d still rather fly, but that’s me
Good luck to them I say.
Just because it didn't work previously doesn't mean it won't again. The population of Kent has grown by 7.6% or 112,100 people between 2011 and 2021. The way they are building new estates and even towns it's likely it will keep on growing. Add in Brexit and the growth in non-EU freight and you have a different market than previously as well as different owners with different ideas.
Hopefully, it will do well. I know I'll be using it and most people I've spoken to down here are all for it and are hoping for a decent alternative to Gatwick or Stansted. The majority of those against it seem to be from outside Kent,
Just because it didn't work previously doesn't mean it won't again. The population of Kent has grown by 7.6% or 112,100 people between 2011 and 2021. The way they are building new estates and even towns it's likely it will keep on growing. Add in Brexit and the growth in non-EU freight and you have a different market than previously as well as different owners with different ideas.
Hopefully, it will do well. I know I'll be using it and most people I've spoken to down here are all for it and are hoping for a decent alternative to Gatwick or Stansted. The majority of those against it seem to be from outside Kent,