with regard to the queues at T1 on the 10th March, this was due to a emergency evacuation of the terminal airside, i am not saying MAN airport is perfect, but if anyone knows the answer of how to evacuate a terminal in under 5 min and then not have queues after i reakon every airport in great britain would like the answer to it!!!

Rumour has it that bmi have got slots for MAN/SOU effective from the end of the month, but nothing announced. Plans apparantly are for 4 x daily. Is this just another bmi pipe-dream?

Apparantly most of the ex- Bacon slots have already been re-allocated so it will be intersting t osee who has taken them - and for which routes.

There must be other routes ex-Bacon slots that are of interest to airlines. It will be interesting to see what happens.

Scottie Dog

They also have slots for EDI-SOU apparently

Oh yes please! I need to get to SOU in September! LOL.

Seriously though it would be sensible to put the ERJ on this route.

Gaz do you know when these routes will be starting? I agree they are odd times, although the two in the middle will be excellent for picking up cruise traffic.

Does anyone know if an airline has been identified to take ove the Madrid route abandoned by BA?

Which airline is this

From what it says further up the thread its bmi.

Oh dear, BST reared its ugly head...........AGAIN, and then SOME......:D
watp,iktch

He has altered the times by 2 hours and not 1 ?

Service Update
 

BMI are introducing MAN/LYS effective 25th May.

Outward BD343 1030/1315 Mon-Fri + Sun
Inward BD342 1350/1445 Mon-Fri + Sun

PIA

Down to 19 departures per week. 7 Daily flights terminating Manchester 4 New York and 2 Chicago services that will transit Manchester in both directions.

Jett8

Effective 25th April

Inbound JX801 arrive 2225 Wed/Sat SIN/DXB/LUX
Outbound JX802 depart 0700 Thu/Sun LUX/DXB/SIN

Equipment - B742

Scottie Dog

With all the aviation news focused on Open skies it has been very biased towards LHR (for obvious reasons). I would like to know what peoples thoughts are on the implications for Manchester and other regionals. BMi to ORD and the caribean is obviously at risk (although BMi are insisting the ORD service will continue).

thoughts please

Can't see it making much of a change. BD get a good load on the ORD flight, loads from LHR are by no means guaranteed so would they be mad enough to damage their business by pulling it?

Although with BD you can never tell...

As for Vegas and the fleshpots, Virgin Holidays take a lot of the seats for their Manchester clients. VS might consider it worth their while to ship a crate north and take those routes over if BD want to withdraw. Holiday departures are much more sensitive to origin than business travellers after all, passengers off on their fortnight in the sun don't want to be transiting at Gatwick or Heathrow if they live in Bramhall.

It depends on whether BD can arrange extra lift in the short term, and whether they want to retain their MAN operation as a second string.

My money is on BMI moving there 330's to LHR, that is all they want and MAN has only been baby sitting them.

Vegas was always going anyway, it's a high load factor but low yield because the vast majority of pax are on itx tickets. ORD is hopefully staying.

I have heard a rumour that a Madrid service may be about to be announced. Possily by...Ryanair?! Is this true?

Anone got anymore on this?

New Freight Flights @ MAN
 

Flight Check says on page1 that Great Wall are starting 3 per wk from the 14Apr07.In the timetable it shows 4 per wk,Sat/Mon 1110/1340, Wed/Thur 1740/2025.
Ringway Reports says Jett8 are starting 2 per wk from the 26Apr07.

So are both starting?? and is there any connection as both are owned by different Singapore companies...........:ok:

Greatwall will be starting but not when you say. A little later.

It is not true.

How do you know it is not true? ANZ officials were here at MAN having the full VIP treatment only last month.

That'll be why then. They've seen how awful it is! :E

If it is so awful why does it keep winning awards?
I agree it needs money spending on it but don`t most places


Ian

pb115
 

Please refer to my post (number 134), dated 23rd March, with regards to Jett8. Also worthwhile doing a little research yourself - like looking on their website and seeing that the timetable is published there!! :rolleyes:

Scottie Dog

Because we asked them and they said no.:eek:

AirBlue
 

Just had email from AirBlue to say they start serving Manchester effective 1st June.

Schedule is 4 per week on Wed/Fri/Sat/Sun

Islamabad- Manchester
Flight Number: ED-220
Departing: ISB at 14:00
Arriving: MAN at 19:30

Manchester-Islamabad
Flight Number: ED-221
Departing: MAN at 21:00
Arriving: ISB at 10:30

No aircraft type shown, but understand to be an A321.

Scottie Dog
:ok:

Via Ankara I believe on the A321.

I assume Anakara is for fuel only and will not set down pax?

I have just seen that the AA and AC summer daily flights to Boston and Toronto are returning this month. The two carriers will use 752 and 762 equipment respectively.

Now to me, this seems weird that they can operate DAILY during the summer, but not at all during the winter! Surely, two of the world's biggest carriers could manage atleast a 4 times weekly flight to these destinations?! Going from daily to not at all seems abit steep.

Is this because of aircraft shortage or just becuase they cannot attract the customers, because ORD, NYC, PHL and ATL are all able to accomodate multi-daily flights all year round?

Hi MUFC_fan,

During the Winter, northerly cities in North America experience a surge in vacation traffic to Florida, Las Vegas and the Caribbean (similar to that experienced from Britain to the Mediterranean in Summer). Customers from cities such as Boston and Toronto wish to "escape to the sun" during the bitterly cold months. Consequently, it is financially lucrative for airlines to redeploy equipment to these markets when demand is at its peak, and to suspend or reduce service from 'low-season' markets to make way.

Airline operations are all about the pursuit of profit. During Winter, routes such as BOS-MIA and YYZ-LAS are heavily booked at strong yields whilst demand for MAN-YYZ and MAN-BOS is muted (even if an aircraft is full low-season yields can be poor). In Summer the reverse is true. Therefore, even if MAN is capable of supporting flights to YYZ and BOS in the Winter, the scarce aircraft resources can be more profitably deployed elsewhere. The most profitable option will be chosen by the operator.

It is also for this reason that you will notice that many charter aircraft are based in the UK May to October and Canada November to April (they will all be home to roost at MAN again soon!). North America and Western Europe simply have peaks of vacation demand which are diametrically opposed to each other. This represents a financial opportunity to airline companies.

Seasonality is the reason why MAN loses many services in the Winter (including the AAL Boston and the ACA Toronto). But equally, one could argue that we GAIN them in the Summer at the expense of leisure routes serving the North American vacation market. The aircraft simply fly where the customers are most willing to spend their money at the time.

I hope this explanation is helpful to you.

All the best, SHED.

Emptying the lavs would be a good idea too.:hmm:

Speaking of which, who's got the maintenance contract at MAN?

Great Wall inaugural flight will be 26th April.

Nightime Runway closures - effective tonight
 

From an email received today from the airport's community relations team:

Please be aware that the forthcoming Nighttime runway 1 closure will commence this evening at 22:15. The runway will be closed every night between 22:15 and 06:00 until the morning of Tuesday 24th April.
This is due to resurfacing and repairs to adjacent taxiways and runway lighting checks. During the stated times, all flights will operate from Runway 2. In the event of bad weather/low visibility, the works may be deferred and Runway 1 will be reinstated. Normal operations will resume at all other times. As always, the prevailing wind conditions will determine in which direction aircraft will take-off and land.


We do apologise for any inconvenience these changes may cause and would like to assure you that the work will be carried out as quickly as possible. These exceptional changes are permitted within the terms of the Planning Permission for Runway 2 and should you have any queries, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Other planned future closures in 2007:-
· 22:15 hrs on Sunday 3rd June till 06:00 on 8th June (5 nights). Routine maintenance, the annual walking inspection plus Runway re-designation works.
· 22:15 on Sunday 7th October till 06:00 on 12th October (5 nights). Routine maintenance and lighting checks.

New route from 14th May. Sligo-Manchester 4 x week ( Mon,Thu,Fri & Sun)
Aer Arann

Still more to come this month:

Air Great Wall Cargo started MAN ops yesterday with 4 times weekly flights (Mon, Wed, Thu, Sat).

Also, heard of another new cargo carrier at MAN from 25th April. Jett8 Cargo Airlines starts its twice weekly service from MAN with a night stop on Wed and Sat nights.

I also think EMX are increasing their frequencies this later this month on the IOM route. 24th?

Still alot more to come this summer with BE, REA, Airblue, Saudi and the return of AC!:D

Great Wall did not start yesterday, they start same weekend as Jet8
initially twice a week going up to 4
Also I have heard that Mahan Air to go up to 5 a week after they pull out of BHX

Ian

Looking good at the moment then... sure Thai and Cathy Pacific must be looking at MAN?

Any other airlines? Air India?

Thai have been looking for as many years as I care to remember and I`m not talking 5 or 6 years

Ian

Nope (It's Cathay by the way!)
Not before June.

Seen that the Tehran service is 6 hours and 30 minutes non-stop on an A320!

I'm guessing it has extra certificates and afew upper class seats to accommodate for the extra range needed.

March Figures
 

Recently there appear to have been a number of negative posts with regards to services from Manchester - some warranted and others probably not.

I thought it would be an idea to look at the loads being produced from the long-haul scheduled carriers - as produced by the CAA in their provisional figures for the month of March:

Abu Dhabi - Ethihad - 12688. Seems to be an average load of 204 passengers.
Chicago - American/Bmi - 22165 - 178 average load - minus 4.60pc
Doha - Qatar Airways - 15884 - 256 average load - plus 48pc
Dubai - Emirates - 42532 - 343 average load - plus 22pc
New York JFK - British Airways/Delta/Pakistan - 16087 - plus 51pc *
New York Newark - Continental - 17955 - 144 average load - plus 23pc *
Orlando - Virgin - 23367 - plus 11pc
Philadephia - US Air - 11879 - 191 average load - minus 14pc * :\
Tehran - Mahan Air - 2200. plus 156pc *

Figures marked with an * show questionable load factors as I seem to recall that the Eastern Seaboard of the USA was effected by bad weather and therefore there may have been a number of cancelled flights.

Within Europe there have been a number of cancelled services as a result of the BA/Flybe merger. I have therefore deliberately not undertaken a comparison of last year. The following routes do however seem to have performed exceptionally well:

Istanbul - THY - 6664 - 107 average load - plus 15pc
Luxembourg - Luxair/VLM - 4070- plus 483pc * VLM new on the route
Zurich - Swiss - 14382 - plus 21pc :)

As can be seen, all is not lost, and hopefully things will start to look better in the longer term. Remember that BAConnect cancelled 21pc of their slots from Manchester - and that is one heck of a lot to have to make up.

Scottie Dog

Yes, but just replacing 20% of those 21% slots with widebodies in Saudi and possibly more new carriers. This would equal the loss!

Looking good on the long-haul front, lets hope we see a further increase in flights to the East, such as China and India. These are the two biggest growing economies, and if an airline such as Jet Airways (which have shown an interest in MAN, BHX and NCL) can drag the LHR connection passengers away from BA, MAN could regain 3rd spot before long! Anyway...with the airport's view of 42.5 million by 2015, they will certainly need to attract more airlines!

Will another terminal be needed?

I should think that the current terminals will be able to cope for some time yet before talk of a new terminal does the rounds. Although T1 and T3 are nearing full capacity at peak times, T2 is still extremely quiet after midday so plenty of room for additional capacity there.

Also, I think that the terminals will undergo major expansion before a T4 is considered. There is plenty of scope to do this. T1 is in the process of this as I speak. With the new security search area being constructed above ground level checkin and the new retail area above the current airside lounge due to open shortly, some pressure should be released on its cracking seems. There's plenty of room to the east to extend T3. I read somewhere that eventually it will be extended all the way as far as the airport pub. Was this just hearsay? And there's plenty of room to extend T2 as well once it reaches full capacity. The plans were to add onto the exisiting checkin hall and departure lounge, as well as extending the pier from gate 215 down towards staff west. This particular project was due to have started by now but all has gone quiet. Anyone heard anything?