strid
 

From the 17th June, WW3545 from Manchester to Palma has been operated by either A319 (G-DBCK) or A320 (G-MIDP) from BMI Mainline.

However, they MAY revert back to B733 from July 8th.

strid
 

On the other hand, I have just noticed that WW3545 presumably from the 8th July will be operated at 07.25 by A321 aircraft from BMI Mainline.

strid
 

WW3545 operates Monday to Friday.
Each day this past week it has been operated by A319 G-DBCK. The week before it was operated each day by A320 G-MIDP.
An educated guess would be a change to A321 at 07.25 from July 7th.

TSR2

WW3545 operates Monday to Friday.
Each day this past week it has been operated by A319 G-DBCK. The week before it was operated each day by A320 G-MIDP.
An educated guess would be a change to A321 at 07.25 from July 7th

Thanks :ok:

According to Mainline BMI CC, the A321 was in maintenance hence the Sub for the mainline A319.

I don't know what the problems coming out of PMI are though, it appears to be a daily problem that runs on through the day.

321/ww
 

acarsd shows G-MIDC A321 BD9573 MAN-BUD 02/06/2008.

I know the baby 733's go to BUD for maintenance (I think G-TOYL
is there now or was).

I am not sure how long they usually stay but the 733's are usually
gone a month or so.

If the MAN loads are anything like the current BHX ones they will
be able to making use of the 321 in the coming month or two.

Pete

Servisair to get Thomas Cook
 

this has been on the cards for a while. We have just employed around 50 new staff. i was talking to a fueler yesterday and hes flying with thomascook in november from T2!hopefully these rumors will be true.....

ill try and get some more info

PS. SQ A380 i routing LHR-MAN-SIN mosy likely on August 7th, as there is no slots for the T7 yet, it will be parking on stand 62(remote).....

G-STAW

Question -

Further to information in another thread on this forum (Eastern to close another base), can anybody confirm the status of Eastern's MAN-INV scheduled service? Is it withdrawn, about to be withdrawn, or safe due to being crewed remotely from INV? Your insights will be appreciated ...

Thanks, SHED.

SHED

MAN-INV no longer bookable on Eastern web site. Understand last flight was 29th June.

Thanks, Musket90. More disappointing news.

SHED.

Not so disappointing shed when you consider that BE will shift many more people at a more affordable price (between MAN and INV) than Eastern ever could.

Didn't T3 offer £99 return fares MAN-INV. Surely that's not too bad? How many people would BE have to carry before making profits? Short-term perhaps a rise in the number of pax but long-term I doubt if they would want to operate Q400s on the route when the "smaller" aircraft leave their fleet. Or if they did, bet your bottom dollar that frequency would be 1 daily and not the 2 ERJ145s that I believe currently operate the route.

Easyjet Winter Schedule Now on Sale, not very exciting

Alicante
Malaga
Malta
Paphos
Tenerife South

Innsbruck is shown but not bookable

There's no surprise in the U2 routes as they probably want to see how a winter's operation pans out. Next year is when we should get an A319 which I would hope lend itself to at least 3 new U2 destinations ex-MAN, if all operated on a daily basis and probably 5 or so if they operate multiple weekly.

The only real disappointment would be the lack of a Geneva service, but I guess they are still working out if it's possible to do it using a Geneva based aircraft.

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Anyway, Cyprus Airways looks like an airline that may be announcing a rise in frequencies to MAN soon.

BMI Baby seem to have a "tiny" problem tonight. Last three services cancelled, making 5 in total today. Any behind-the-scenes info? Mrs ETOPS has been on standby this afternoon - if she'd known she could have had a drink!!

I'm willing to bet that the late night PRG is cancelled.

There seems to be a massive problem with the early PMI flight which bounces on to the BOD and causes the PRG to be cancelled.

We copped for it on the o/b BOD the other week, 4 1/2 hour delay, 2 hours sat on aircraft and they still charged for food and drinks....

EZY
 

In light of the U2 Winter schedule what are U2's plans for Man

When they announced the MAN base they they indicated 5 based A/C by 2010

There was some hope that in Summer 08 they may have added some addition routes over the ex GT ones even if not by based A/C. This didn't happen and Winter 08/09 is no different.

It has been said many time that slots don't mean flights.

However I found this extract from Airport Coordination Ltd on MAN summer 08 interesting

"EZY - Easyjet - Canx plans for three based A319's operating daily AGP, BRU, CGN, HAM, PMI, RAK and TLS, also three per day BFS. Plus nonbased daily GVA, LYS, MAD and twice daily MXP"

This would imply that U2 had some intention of operating extra flights from summer 08 but then cancelled those plans and there is nothing new for winter either other than ALC which wasn't even on the list. Neither is INN which GT operated last year

Many of those possible routes were to existing destinations.

It has been said that U2 were reviewing there smaller bases and MAN although new was one of them.

Could it be that the review put any expansion plans on hold and this coupled with the other problems affecting all airlines at present means that expansion is likely to be delayed even further.

Also the Announcement of the MAN base originally was delayed apparently partly due to MAPLC. Could it be that despite all the present problems with lost flights that MAPLC still has concerns about U2 particularly when they wish to start services to destinations already served.

Viscount

I would imagine 319s won't be seen at MAN until the subfleet is fully integrated. All MAN cabin crew will need conversion courses.

Ex Cargo Clown
 

Both the PMI and BOD flights arrived back in Manchester today on time but still the PRG flight was cancelled. The other two cancelled flights were Belfast and Knock.

G-TTIC
 

People keep mentioning the integration and the conversions which are necessary. However from reading various posts nothing at least on the conversion front would appear to be happening.

Further and more importantly if expansion is to take place more crew need to be recruited to operate from MAN who would be trained on the appropriate equipment in the process but again there doesn't seem to be any sign of this happening at present. In fact there would seem to be a shortage of F/O as it is.

Which goes back to my original point that expansion doesn't seem to be going ahead or at least going ahead as quickly as was originally envisaged.

Viscount