Quite True!

Anyhow lets get back on topic....

To
the last two blokes do you include GB Airways this assessment.

I am a travel agent - had a meeting with on of thier sales ladies the other day. They said that they are their own operation and do what they like, so I think GB will stay. (They pay BA £1.5m for the use of the brand!)

Guess it depends if GB begins to turn there business around. Last year they made a £5M loss (Not just the MAN base) and it depends how long they can sustain that sort of loss for.

Looks like the Maham reduction in service may just be a temporary reduction, with a return to a twice weekly service in July. Have heard that if all goes to plan, a IKA - MAN - YYZ/YVR service is a real possibility.

On another note, I hear from my sources at Barcelona airport, that Iberia;s new low cost arm is to re-commence services between the Spanish city and Manchester, at last re-establishing some competition on the route, which used to have three carriers, and now only has 1(Monarch) and a once weekly unreliable Air Scotland service, of course. (Not much uise for the businessman.) We shall see what happens.

Does anyone Know how well the CWL service is going as I heard it was sometimes operating with single passsenger numbers?

Does anyone know if the A380 will visit EGCC this week or sometime soon.

My understanding is no UNLESS ATC can talk them into doing a go around on the way to Chester inbound from Hamburg

G-I-B

G-I-B

What day and what time are they due at Chester and yes please, can they talk them into it.

What time would this be?????

It is due Chester 10.40Z so if it were to do an approach to Manchester I would guess at about 10-15 minutes earlier
and I do stress IF, I would guess this would only happen if Manchester was on runway 24
So all in all I would just keep an eye out on Thursday

G-I-B

What day this week is it due at Chester?

Sorry! I should read the WHOLE post before posting a reply.

Thursday it is!

Sorry I should have said Thursday 18th

G-I-B

GB going lo-co at MAN from June 26th. Al flights to be operated under the BACON brand
No more free in-flight meals. Was expected

http://www.gbairways.com/baconnect/summary/

The curse of Planetalk strikes again.
In the latest issue a picture of the launch of Aer Arann service to Angers.
How many days did that last?
On the plus side, I believe they have switched to Nantes instead from Manchester - how is that doing then?

Exact, Nantes is now served instead of Angers from Cork and Manchester. Logical choice, Nantes is France's sixth biggest city with an airport of 2,200,000 pax per year, a big economic and touristic pole, but Angers, which is also a lovely city, is much smaller and bad-known out of France, with aan airport with nearly no commercial traffic.

Nantes is real advantage for an airline compared to Angers or any other place in Western France...

from ailiners.net forum...

I recently had a very nice conversation with a leading Senior Accountant of Saudia of their JED head office and here is what he had to say concerning their future international expansion from this winter :

a) Twice weekly flights to Toronto in 2007 to be routed via Manchester using Boeing 747-300s or Boeing 777-200ERs. No 5th freedom rights avbl on MAN-YYZ-MAN but the MAN market for them is so huge that Im told to not be surprised if a B 743 is indeed used for this route.

I have a 0500 check in at T1 next week, can anyone tell me if anywhere will be open for breakfast at that time? Is it possible to get a decent breakfast airside or landside?
Appreciate any replies....

No and No.:yuk:

You can get breakfast/food but whether you call it decent is another matter.