manchester chaos
 

Anyone like me wandering why Manchester airport have decided to dig up all the taxiways just in time for summer ? chaos this morning, aircraft going everywhere, when eventually you can get pushback.
Same goes in the arrivals hall, terminal 1 where they have decided to re-route all the pax through a building site, the exit of which isn't big enough, hence passengers backed up blocking baggage belts !
Same goes on the road system where they have created such a mess with the spaghetti road system that 2 flights arriving together causes the whole road system to become clogged up nearly all the way to the motorway !!!

Who are these people who decide these things ?
:mad:

<<system that 2 flights arriving together....>>

But does that ever happen at Manch...

(I'll get me coat....)

;) Liberal Democrats, forever digging the dirt in their efforts to emancipate the masses into the left wing of the terminal.:p

Please Longstay, visit Dublin any day, any month and you will
find out what chaos really is!
We all know what a joke the terminal is, but when the dig holes
on the taxiways they excel themselves, dig 'em up and leave them, thats their policy, never mind the inconvenience lets take 2 months to complete a 2 day job!:mad:

Yeah, remember they got 2 runways now Bren ;) ;)

...think it's called management .....in the modern idiom . 'nuff said .

And what about staff west, that's just as bad!

What about Fred West? As mere staff you must understand that you are of no consequence and your contribution to the success (or otherwise) is also of no consequence. Local Authority Airport run by Local Authority. Any questions?:yuk:

folks come to Dublin international as they call it and Manchester fades into a mere poor cousin re disorganisation at the highest level......the airport would win awards if it was in a lego land competition.....bits of it everywhere and queues everywhere. today staff found their respective security points closed....joke.....bob geldof was right banana republic.....manch couldnt be as bad.

Sadly, its all come to this.
In '97 & '98, MAN worked reasonably well.
First it was the taxiway re-designation....then apparantly all down hill from there.

ATC ain't bad, though.

Trundled out to cross to 24L last week and passed a large piece of metal, which I assume is covering a hole, and I swear it was there 8 years ago. Please tell me I'm wrong.

What they actually got wrong was not digging a trench across both runways .... this would ensure that no aircraft could depart and later deposit a bunch of drunken tatooed Manchunians onto our precious Mediterranean beaches this summer....:E

Seriously.... sorry to hear about the problems. Lot of good ATC people up there. Can't Jenks sort 'em out, or is he banished to an armchair and carpet slippers like me now??

On the subjet of what a mess MAN is, how about the new staff exit from airside, right into a smoking area!!! Who thought that one up then? :ugh:

Looking at the NOTAMS it would appear that the work on Taxiway Delta is due to finish tonight - in fact I heard last night that repainting was going on of the normal taxiway centre-lines.

The closure of Taxiway N through N1 is changed from tomorrow night to 2030-0500, rather than 24hours.

Hopefully that will help, and also mean that the new stands being constructed can be in use before the end of June.


By the way, when is the best time - from a technical point of view - to lay new apron?

Scottie
Before you need it: ie 15 years ago!
Take care

I assume you mean from a construction point of view, rather than airport ops !

Summertime. Longer daylight (productivity higher in daylight than under arc-lights). Operatives also more productive on outdoor work in good weather. Higher temperatures allow materials, blacktop, concrete, even paint, to cure quicker so you can start the next stage quicker. Some materials cannot be laid in cold winter temperatures.

The steel plate mentioned earlier will be the same one. It will however, have been lifted, replaced, lifted etc etc etc etc to cope with the ever losing battle of holes in taxiways at MAN. I know the guy who laid the original concrete. He sometimes writes to me from the Cayman Islands. His brother did the drains in Area 7 Car Park - the ones that have been blocked for the thick end of 2 years. I understand there are 14lb trout in the resulting lake.:mad:

Has the dude that planned the taxiways sobered up yet? (Or found his ruler!)

He writes to you from the Caymen Islands, from his luxury villa.... laughing all the way!!