Manchester Happenings
 

Does anyone know anything about a possible new twice weekly Royal Jordanian service from Man to AMM?

Also, anyone know if Virgin and US Airways are to move terminals next year from T2 to T1?

Recap of recent rumours (in no particular order)

Delta or American to Los Angeles

Air China to Beijing

US Airways to Charlotte

Sri Lankan to Colombo

BMI to India

China Airlines to Bangkok and Taipei

Qantas to Sydney

Virgin Express to Brussels

Continental 2x daily to Newark

Cathay to Hong Kong

All Nippon to Tokyo



There are probably more. Which, if any will ever happen, only time will tell.

US Airways wil probably be defunct by Feruary so Charlotte is a big if!

All Nippon is a dead duck, the rumour started due to a brief charter op.

There are so many more long and medium haul markets ex-Manchester, yet to be exploited.

Bangkok, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Delhi, Mumbai, Male, Colombo, Dhaka, Tehran, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Cairo, Nairobi, Mauritius, Johannesburg, Cape Town, Cancun, Los Angeles, San Fransisco, Detroit and Montreal must be at the top of the list!?!

Manchester should have the likes of Thai, Cathay, Qantas, JAL, Air India, Sri Lankan, Biman, Etihad, Gulf Air, Egyptair, Kenya Airways, Air Mauritius, South African and Northwest operating flights. Other airlines have shown that there is much potential in more long haul routes from Manchester. For example, going by CAA fligures for September, one route in particular, San Fransisco, is carrying HALF the monthly equivelent of the US Airways MAN-PHL route, at approx 4000 pax/month. This SURELY shows that there is a market for at leats 3-4 weekly widebody flights, direct from MAN to SFO. What makes matters even stranger is that the MAN-LAX market is larger than the SFO one, and no-one is even flying that one!

Regards

Mike

Aeulad

Pax travelling to/from the NWUK can access Bangkok, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Shanghai, Delhi, Mumbai, Male, Colombo, Dhaka, Tehran, Abu Dhabi, Bahrain, Cairo, Nairobi, Mauritius and Jo'burg via the EK services to Dubai. (Sorry ,Mike! I couldn't resist that!)

Together wth Kuala Lumpu, Manilla, Jakarta, Brisbane, Auckland, Christchurch, Dar-es-Salam, Perth, Hyderabad, Chennai, Cochin and Peshawar...

...and very soon Beijing, Cape Town and a whole host of other destinations targetted by Emirates.( Or that!)

I can remember Qantas serving the airport years ago and as a child remember seeing Northwest(Orient) 747's regularly on Pier B. I'm not too sure if Cathay, Air Mauritius,Air Seychelles, Malaysian, Air India etc operate 'Seasonal services' to MAN but I know they've all 'dabbled' with MAN services at one time or another, as have SAA and Gulf Air but they've never stayed on the route because the PAX figures havent materialised.

As for US East/West Coasts, well that's BA for you, and their attitude of ' If we can't make any money on it then we wont let anyone else have a go.' I remember Laker used to serve LA from MAN and look what BA did to them!

It's ripe for 'Tricky Dickie' to throw a couple of his A343's 'out to pasture'at MAN with a couple of LAX's , SFO's 3 or 4 times per week. Just hope he doesn't give it to Air Atlanta.

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Malasian still operate to Manchester 4 times a week passenger plus I think twice a week cargo, Northwest Airlines have only ever operated cargo never passenger

Golf India Bravo

My apologies G-I.B.

It was probably C.P. Air, TransAmerica and WardAir that I was confusing them with. It was a long time ago (about 25-30 years ago)...aah! Those were the days... Sunday afternoons in summer with my dad... access to the roof of Pier Bravo...the smell of kerosene... getting the two-fingered salute from a pair of Spantax DC-8 pilots!!!

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Ah yes they were good days and I even remember when they parked side on be fore the nose in parking! and flying on an Air Spain DC8-21

Golf India Bravo

Air Spain, a brilliant blast from the past!

http://whipsnade.co.uk/picturelibrar...r_120_wide.jpg

G-I.B.

'...Before nose in parking?...Air Spain DC8-21?...'

My god,Man! You should be crown green bowling, fly fishing or enjoying some other equally sedate pursuit at your time of life instead of messing about with computers!!!!

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The joys of smokey Dan-Air Ambassador starts, Euravia Constellations, KLM 'Flying Dutchman' colourschemes and Mercury Herons etc..........those were THE days!!

Back to my zimmer-frame??

You will have us crying into our rosiners even though it is just 9.35 am in the mornin'!

Rosiner: A nice cup of tea with a few generous measures of whiskey added for taste!

There is now even a sentimentality associated with the Palmair/European Boeing 737-200 regularly doing the WW flight to Cork! :{

So what's happening with easyJet and Manchester? Is it going to happen this summer?

Vuelo is that you...................?

Dwlpl,
To quote that meat-loaf bloke, "you took the words right outta my mouth"

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Scottie Dog, My recollection of the Dan-Air Ambassadors starting was that it was almost impossible to see across the airport while it went on seemingly for ages.

Who.what is Vielo? I think you must be confused, dwlpl.

Vuelo - Give us the heads-up on the new long-haul routes into Ringway that you promised would be announced soon! I need to book a flight back home for next June...I'm holding out in the hope that CX of QF will return to Manchester. I hate transiting through LHR.

chipsbrand andScotiedog

Yes the Ambassadors were paticularly smokey and their start ups seemed to take longer than the other types you mention. It was great once the new piers were built, as you were above the smoke on the roof!

are there to be charter flights to south africa from manchester this winter? also, is the new airline muted on here a few months ago, still going to operate services to pakistan? its all gone very quiet....