According to V-Flyer, the Manchester - St. Lucia flight on VS will end at the start of the next summer season.

"Creating tomorrows airport"- 10 year plan
 

An in-depth look into the airports 10 year development strategy.

RIGHT SIZING EACH TERMINAL

- Move towards co-location by sector
- With the right facilities for the right sector
- At the right price
Terminal One - Full service/scheduled
Terminal Two - IT & C / Leisure outbound
Terminal Three - Short haul European

AIRPORT DEVELOPMENT PLAN

Significant investment in terminal, airfield, car parking and utilities infrastructure.

- Duel taxiway Delta
- Pier B demolition and rebuild.
- Upgrade West/East stands
- Code E/F parallel taxiways
- T2 West pier extension
- Pier C refurb and vertical segregtation
- T1/T2 Link
- T3 carpark extension
- Ringway road diversion
- T3 East apron
- Code F/C parallel taxiways
- Duel taxiway Juliet demolition of pier A
- Additional Runway crossing oposite T3

PIER B: rebuild

- Airside road inder pier
- All stands to be served airbridges
- Vetical segregation arrivals corridor over departures
- Domestic and international arrivals horizon segregation
- New 2-story A380 lounge integrated into the design of the pier

PIER B: image attached

TERMINAL 1 PIER C

- Maximise number of T1 contact stands
- Dual taxiway delta over remote stands to maintain Pier C as a double sided pier
- New arrivals corridor over existing pier to segregate departing from arriving passenger

TERMIAL 3 & PIER

T3 APRON EXTENSION
- New head of stand road if single central taxiway
- Area safeguard for code D2 stands
- New head of stand airside road
- Taxiway capacity to be investigated
- Four code D2 or 787-300 stands possible

DELIVERY PROGRAMME
Above complete by 2017

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i have read throught the 10 year plan and created a bullet-point document as seen above, from my point of view the plan looks promising, excitied by the proposed images of T3 pier, this will make T3 the same size as T2 if not bigger. Pier B looks very interesting, a very modern design to incorporate the A380!

Finally we have duel delta taxiway, this will ease conjestion early morning, plus good to see pier C being overhauled in the process.

G-STAW

That makes no sense whatsoever!

What a FANTASTIC contribution to the thread from Veulo. How he must have have dwelt long and hard to compose such a marvellous and erudite comment. I'm sure that he'll soon be put forward for a Pulitzer prize.
If not I'd like to nominate him for being a prize :oh:

The point of his post being to prove that he MUST subscribe to Womans Own.

Oh dear I seem to have descended into my own Tit-for tat bashing.

Bovvered, am I - naah.

Thanks for the effort G-STAW.:ok:

Shame we're not going to see extension of V in the next 10 years but suppose cost/benefit analysis has justified the exclusion.

bmi are doing 4 Jeddah flights in November/December according to the airline route updates blog

G-Staw, just wondering if there are any start dates for any of these.

As far as im aware the T1/T2 link will need to be inplace before any work can start on B-pier, maybe even C-pier.

Not sure what tht means, T3 A pier demolition ie 141/142/143 gone?
Or something to do with the taxi way Juliet.

What about the new Tower, or the 10 year plan only include the Termials?

In reality I doubt if any major projects are started until financial markets stabilize.

MAGs thrifty ways over the last few years have probably been for the best.As a Manchester tax payer, I am glad they (MAG) havent saddled themselves with new multi billion terminals. Instead money has been spent on essential operational areas ie taxiway repairs outside and retail and security improvements inside.

I heard that the new control tower has been put on hold .

Further contraction at Man.
Looks like PIA down to 4 a week total from Jan 09.

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DETAILED DRAFT DELIVERY PROGRAMME

TERMINAL 1

T1-T2 LINK DESIGN;BY 2009 CONSTRUCTION; BY Q3 2010
T1 PIER C DESIGN;BY 2008 CONSTRUCTION; BY Q3 2011
T1 DOMESTIC RETURN DESIGN; BY 2008 CONSTRUCTION; BY Q4 2009
T1 PIER B(A380 LOUNGE) DESIGN;BY 2009 CONSTRUCTION; BY Q2 2011
T1 PIER B REFURB DESIGN;BY 2009 CONSTRUCTION BY Q2 2011
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TERMINAL 3 (EAST)

T3 PIER DESIGN;BY 2009 CONSTRUCTION; BY Q2 2012
T3 LANDSIDE EX DESIGN;BY 2009 CONSTRUCTION; BY Q2 2012
T3 RETAIL REFURB DESIGN;BY 2009 CONSTRUCTION; BY 2013
T3 AIRSIDE WORK DESIGN;BY 2010 CONSTRUCTION; BY 2011
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OTHER ON-GOING PROJECTS

T3 BUSINESS LOUNGE DESIGN; BY 2010 CONSTRUCTION; BY 2011
T3 MULTI-STORY EXT DESIGN; BY 2011 CONSTRUCTION; BY 2012
T1 SUBSTATION RELOCTN DESIGN;BY2010 CONSTRUCTION; BY 2011
T3 LANDSIDE SUB RELOCTN DESIGN;BY 2010 CONSTRUCTION;BY 2011
AIRFIELD TWYS/STANDS DESIGN'BY2008 CONSTRUCTION;BY 2017
T3 OBC(SOUTHERN FRONT) DESIGN;BY 2008 CONSTRUCTION; BY2008

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PS nothing on new tower construction

G-STAW

These long term plans will be affected by more than just the money markets in my view. Considering the likely continued contraction in the charter market (still a significant proportion of MAN's traffic), the increasing reliance on lo-co's - and the inherent low fees associated with them, and MAG's apparent desire to spend a not insignificant sum on acquiring a piece of the action at LGW, I wonder how much room the company will have financially to invest in its existing assets in the short - medium term?

Giving credit where it's due, mind, the money spent on the new security search area in T1 has delivered a big improvement although the total lack of natural light from the check-in area through to beyond duty free must be quite depressing for the staff working there!

Depressing !!

Eee, Whin I wah a lad, wid do 18 hours a day, down int bowels of T1 baggage area, never seeing sun for weeks !

And at end of shift we ad t sweep up wi our tongues :)

how does one get hold of the document?

'how does one get hold of the document?'

IM the man with the plan..........G-STAW.

MM

At first glance that looks a good plan. All of those works are needed and will make the airside environment and customer service better.

It's a tall and expensive order though, and some challenging timescales. I hope their project management skills are up to it, or will they be using MADL?

MAN777

You do realise that you have written your post in 'a Yorkshire' accent and not best 'Cheshire' as should be. ;)

Born Cheshire, work in Manchester, live on Lancashire / North Yorkshire border, I have a real identity crisis going on !!:confused:

they are not widely available, i have been given permission to "note-only".

your childish behavior has surfaced once more, btw an aircraft awaits your brush and binliner.........

G-STAW

I thought T2 west Pier extension was due to start next year. Is that still the plan because I note that it is mentioned in the plan but no date

G-STAW

You seem to be the only poster on here to have
inside infomation on the 10 yr plan, so naturally
one would assume that contacting you would be
the best bet for further knowledge.

Im so very sorry if this course of action has caused
you any amount of trouble.

I respect your position - in that you only want to
reveal tit-bits in your own time.

As to it being 'childish' - I thought that it might
help - so please except that it was a genuine
effort on my part to be - of help.

MM