I dunno, Cathay, Dragonair, Great Wall, China Airlines, Air China,.......you'd think one of them might wanna carry the odd pax- Where's the 747 Combi when you want one. !!:sad:

MAN expansion
 

I read on our notice board that T1 is going to be ripped down in 2 years time.
Hopfully they can sort out a better layout!!!!!:ugh:

But then a couple of days later I was told that any building work would be on expanding T3, "low cost being the way forward".

So does anybody know what is happening and what is the time frame??

bit miffed about the "low cost" statement but hey! what the heck,MAN goes to more places than most.:D

T1 is undergoing a 35 million retail redevelopment so no chance of it being ripped down. B pier is due to be rebuilt ion the near future.

T3 is apparently to get a big extension towards the airprot pub. Planning permission with Manchester council.

Now that MAN is operating 23/05 runways, can anyone tell me the process of how (and when) they went through the process of remarking them?

I know that the old 24R/06L was not being used on Tuesday night/Wednesday morning for some time - so maybe this was marked up before the switch over and perhaps the old 24L/06R during daytime single rwy ops on Wednesday???

for the last 3 nights they have been working on 24R-06L now 23R-05L . remarking and changing the boads and also whilst the runway was closed they killed two birds with one stone and did some resurfacing work. was fun the hear ATC and base pilots from midnight onwards stumbling over runways wanting to say 06 instead of 05 will take a bit of getting use to
:ok: rampman

Any new routes at all for the wnter scedules? LS/ZB/BE expansions?

It's pretty poor trying to get from AGP to MAN on a Monday this winter.

Only a ZB flight that gets to MAN at 22.55.

No LS, WW or TOM. :*

Forgive my ignorance but what is the benefit / difference in changing runways to 23R-05L?

:confused:

up up and away

It is then pointing nearer to the right Magnetic heading

e.g if the runway is 236 degrees then it will be called r/w 24
and if it was 234 degrees then it would be called r/w 23

and so on, the magnetic variation is always changing

Runways
 

Hey there Up Up And Away

http://www.uk-airport-news.info/manc...ews-070607.htm

Follow the link for a reason for the changes:)

Thanks for the replies and info.

:ok:

Can anyone tell me how many flights a day Delta have into Man & whether they have any evening or night movements.
Thanks
GAZIN

Just the two, ATL and JFK, both operate at "normal" morning times.

There are no afternoon/evening US movements at MAN (yet).

OK thanks :ok:
Look out for those Purple MD11's Aug/Sept time:)

PURPLE!!!????/:confused:

Ok, I'm game who is it this time?

Fed-Ex?

Thai? (again).:rolleyes:

Won`t carry many pax!

Ian

They wont be carrying passengers & they will be heading west;)

That's interesting Gazin. The only thing that I had seen before was that they were looking at heading in a south-easterly direction for about 250 miles, and having a couple of feeders into MAN from UK points!!

Let's see what happens, after all it has been talked about previously and nothing has happened.

More interesting will be the results of the IATA Scheduling Confetrence that was held between 2nd-5th June, and with a slot return deadline of 31st August.

Scottie Dog

FedEx have had slots before and returned them, ast year I believe wasn't it. They do currently operate a feeder flight.

My son used to work for Fedex.

It has always been known that they were looking to establish a future hub at Manchester. So perhaps the time has come?

I have also known for a while that they were looking into flights from Man as I used to know a planning manager from one of FEDX companies.

The next Minneapolis!;)

Maybe they could use BA's old maint. hanger for sorting, palleting, etc, etc ...
It would look good purple!:)

Does anybody know if any operators from MAN offer first class or the equivalent. I know that VS, CO, DL, US etc offer business class equivalent, but do any offer first class.

Cheers.

Pretty sure SQ do, and maybe EK as well?

US Air do but only about 6 or so seats.

What's this big announcement everyone is talking about today, that is supposed to be happening this week? A bew carrier?

Yes I heard that too, it's supposed to involve 'several' Asian cities.

Asian, as in Japanese or Hong Kong/China or we talking Indian?

Ian

Could it be Air Asia ?

might it be a flight to hong kong?

I am becoming cynical, have heard of these big announcements so many times and nothing happens, so am trying not to get my hopes up but Hk would be good for me.

If it is it's not with Cathay.

Could this simply be EK going 3X daily or QR going daily, giving much better connections through their home bases to cities on their ever increasing Asian networks? QR have just gained traffic rights to Australia, EY have also been given increased traffic rights, whilst EK are increasing frequency to PEK 12x per week from July

Rumours, Rumours, rumours
 

Whilst I appreciate that this is a rumours forum (as well as news), is it not time that we waited until an official announcement is made - rather than continuing to extol the wishes that certain Far East carriers served Manchester?
After all, with all the gossip on other threads, could this even be the long expected :rolleyes: launch of an Aer Lingus base at our beloved Ringway!!
Time will tell, and patience is a virtue. :)
Scottie Dog

Does anybody know anything about AB pulling out of MAN?

APPARENTLY (according to another website) AB are to pull their HAM, Paderborn and STN routes from this winter. Any news?

Cannot find any news on it yet. AB havn't released their full W07 programme, so unsure.

Cheers.

There are a few strange things happening at MAN at the moment. Jet2 seem to be axeing their BCN service on 04/09, very few of their routes are on sale for winter, neither are BE's. AB haven't really had their heart in it at MAN if you ask me. PAD has been a good load factor though, usually 100+ on each flight.

You have seemed to mention some of the loco carriers on MAN. If LPL took the same you view as you, there would be no passengers left at the airport!

Alot of loco airlines will not launch their whole W07 timetable until July/August time. Alot of the charter and traditional carriers launch before this, such as TOM, FCA and BA.

I'm sure LS and BE will have a full schedule up and running before children are back at school in September! AB maybe less so.

I have no doubt about it, but the fact remains that FR and U2 winter scheds have been on sale for a few weeks now, so no wonder MAN will lose out if its carriers don't get in on the act earlier.

Nice to see the T1 redevelopment coming on, wandered round today to see the new area and looks like one hell of an improvement....roll on the next phase!

Sorry, didn't realise that U2 and FR had all their seats on sale.

Cheers, I was waiting for them to release flights so I can book a trip in February!:}