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