Thanks for the info Vuelo, the inbound certainly seems quite healthy considering its a brand new service.

Pax figures won`t improve until the BAcon is factored out next spring
BHX is showing slow growth but they had such a terrible couple of years it couldn`t get any worse and of course they don`t have the London flights to take into consideration ( train competition ) which has kicked in the last couple of years after a few years when it was a terrible service

Ian

MAN Guy,

Really, the inbound service is the 'outbound service' for the airline who will probably attract more Italians than British who will probably stick with LS and BE. Obviously there will still be GB pax on the flights, just more Italians!

Really, the inbound service is the 'outbound service' for the airline who will probably attract more Italians than British who will probably stick with LS and BE. Obviously there will still be GB pax on the flights, just more Italians!

LS have pulled their BGY route!

LS operated MAN-BGY last week, I saw it

jet2
 

The route ended with effective from last weekend when the summer season came to and end. Big question marks over the chances of Barcelona, Valencia, Toulouse and Berlin returning next year.

Air Med Caravan at MAN
 

A little off-topic but....


Noticed an Air Med Caravan cargo plane at MAN today, and with a little research, I've found that they've been at MAN quite a lot in the last few months and the aircraft is rarely on the ground more than an hour.

Anyone know what they are bringing in or taking out (commodity and payload) and who handles them at MAN for their quick turnarounds?

Thanks in advance.

NE
 

Are NE operating daily flights to BTS now.

The reason I ask is that although the NE website was a while back showing daily flights they now only show 4 a week on 1 3 5 7. OAG now only show 4 a week as well where they were showing daily. Also NE website would only let you book on 1 3 5 7 until a couple of days ago although now it does look as though you can book other days

Any further news on the purportedly imminent ( a few weeks back now) announcement of NW to DTW and the fact that CX to HKG was in the System from 8 February 2008 from T1. I know there are some extra freight flights already but that is not what was said to be on the cards.

Viscount

I believe any NW MAN-DTW service will now by 2009 at the earliest; having said that the 3 new transatlantic routes they announced a week or so ago only involved 2 with NW's own metal flying.

Until CX's fixation with LHR and the BA shuttle is ended, we have no prospect for them (and if they do start, it *has* to be a non-stop service so that it "competes" favourably with thier own LHR services, and not taking a lot longer to fly).

Noticed the 1st AY advert for the "3 times daily" Helsinki in the Manchester Evening News tonight.

I believe that the Air Med flights bring in Perishable cargo, they are rarely on the ground for more than an hour as time is pennies, the longer they are on the floor, the less time they are in the air earning pennies.

They simply drop the cargo and off they swan again, sometimes back to Kidlington sometime elsewhere.

Hope that helps.

Mom

LS are also dropping PRG and AMS from January. Think we can safely say that LS are seriously downsizing at MAN....come on U2, get that ex-GB base up and running and give MAN a real boost. We can't have a situation where KL has no competition on AMS, at least!

Routes currently awaiting carriers at MAN for next summer are:

PGF
BOD
VLC
MAD
XRY
GIB
OPO
PSA
NAP
VCE
NCE
TLS
GVA
TXL
LDY
LRH
EGC
VRN
HER
PFO
VIE

I am sure EZY/WW/BE could at least take up a few!

Cannot understand LS. They said last winter that they are looking at seriously increasing their flights from MAN and increasing aircraft to 12/13 aircraft!

If they are to reduce services, we really do need U2 or FR. I can understand what people say about the major locos forcing other carriers off of routes and they are not money makers for the airport but MAN is going to fall behind if they don't keep up with the market.

When the airport get their terminals sorted and get the loco terminal up and running (when is this anyway?) they should be able to attract more airlines from across the world.

Obviously we want to see AirAsiaX, Oasis Hong Kong, Cathy Pacific, Air China and Northwest which all seem to be interested in MAN (over the next two years) but the airport also has to look at it's EU network. They may have more destinations that everyone but two airports on the planet but they certainly don't have an excellent scheduled network on the short-haul routes!

U2...MAN calling!

Not only will EZY be at MAN next summer but I believe they will be at MAN in full force! There are a lot of mixed views regarding this but I genuinely believe that they will take this opportunity with both hands. They have not hidden the fact that they've always wanted to come into Manchester. They wanted MAN over LPL back in the day and they were close to setting up a base here two years ago and it was only slot restrictions that stopped them. Now that they have prime slots and the opportunity to get their foot in the door, there's noway that they're going to turn it down.

Furthermore, I'll bet my bottom dollar that someone at easyland right now is looking at routes constantly being dropped by LS, WW et al and thinking we can be in here. It's their golden chance.

Forget the fact that LPL is down the road. EZY are not stupid. They're not going to overlap routes and force pax of their Liverpool flights. I doubt very much that we'll see them operate AGP, ALC, PMI etc. They're astute enough to realise where the potential is and along with some of the ex GB routes, I reckon we'll soon see the likes of MAD, SXF, NCE and many other 'missing' destinations back on our departure boards on a year round basis.

Watch this space...

Ls have said alot of things in the past, just look at blk, thers nowt happening at moment,theres more goin on in the local cenmetary!!! Ls have a bse there yet fr operate more flights:}:}, whats the saying about a bright orange future????

Well after having a pop the other week it's only fair I balance it with my latest and much better experience.

Flew out of T3 on BD last Tuesday evening and I waltzed through. A couple of mins queue to check in (couldn't do on line or machine checkin as I was doing MAN-LHR-ICN-PUS with the latter two on OZ). After that no queue for security at all and in the BD lounge 4 minutes after I got my BP's.

Just got back on SQ328 this morning. A minute to go through immigration on arrival and straight through and into a near deserted T2 arrivals as I had no checked luggage to wait for. Only slight issue is the now earlier arrival of SQ328 with the clocks going back. We landed at 0520, Missus well chuffed...

T1 is an altogether awful experience in comparison and it's hardly surprising SQ have knocked back repeated attempts to get them to move there.

Manchester to Florida in February, any ideas who?
 

Advice please

I am looking at going to Florida in the first 2 weeks of February.

Does anyone know who fly's this route from Manchester during this period.

Which high street travel agents should I visit. I was hoping that either TOM, FCA, MYT, TXC or MON would do this route in Feb????

Any ideas.

Rob

...and dont forget VS, and all the US carriers via their hubs.

Tell me what Mt. Everest ride is like at Animal Kingdon - it opened the week after we came home last time !! Never mind any excuse to go back ;)

I know in previous posts I haven't been overly complementary about certain loco's at MAN but just perhaps U2 would give MAN the boost it needs right now.

It is hard to ignore the idea that if they add just a handful of the type of key cities listed by Vuelo (say MAD, NCE, VCE, SXF and GVA) and maybe throw in routes in need of some decent competition (say BCN and AMS) add these to the inherited GB stuff with strong branding and a ballsy attitude (somewhat lacking with our current loco's..... oooops there I go again!) then they have a nice workable network with which to start up from MAN

Jet2 to come back to MAN -AMS?
 

Heard in the pub last night (so must be true :} ) that LS will be coming back to MAN-AMS from the end of March 2008. Nothing on their web-site yet.

Anyone know any more?

Suzeman

Understand that LS have applied for no slots for AMS for the summer of 08, what we could do with to replace this is say Easyjet to base some aircraft.
I guess time will tell ;-)
Mom