Best loos!
 

But a shame they cant get the ILS to work!

What's up with the ILS now? I see at the end of Pier B the works continue, what are they putting in place? Something to do with A380? Surley they cannot bring A380 into Pier B as it is now? What happened to building the new Pier?! Birmingham has one which handled the A380 fine so MAN should have one! I went to Hamburg for the weekend, flew out Friday afternoon, departure was 13.55, upon boarding at about 13.45 I noticed Saudia 777 crossing 23R for 23L departure, then our departure was delayed to 14.10 due to landings being made on 23L, what's wrong with 23R now? Also, I noticed that gate 25 has one of those stupid yellow mirrors that Pier B have, doesn't Pier C have those sensor things, so the pilots know when to stop? Do T2 & T3 have these?

BMI Baby summer 2010
 

Summer 2010 has been revised out goes: -

Amsterdam
Barcelona
Cork
Faro.

Base down to two very hardworking aircraft. They do 16 sectors in
total on Monday and Friday with 14 Tuesday and Thursday.

This is just checking one week in June.

Amsterdam ends after Easter.

At least all these routes are served by other airlines.

Pete

So..it's "Bye Bye Baby,Good Bye" then :suspect:
bb

Well, actually, if we are talking in terms of Ryanair, they have left an airport Ryanair have also left in as many words.

Yet they have become ever the more cosy at EMA, one of Ryanair's biggest bases in the UK. So really, WW is more saying 'hello' than 'goodbye.'

But for the sake of Manchester, yes. ZB, LS, U2 and the IT crowd have the market covered from MAN for the foreseeable future.

hi

ive got the january edition of airliner world and it says emirates are adding a high density a380 to its fleet this month, any chance that might come to MAN in january as it says will be used for european routes.

EK gets 2 A380 these days and will use it for ICN and CDG.

Okay thanks

also there was something in there about a syrian operator Cham wings who wants to start flights to the uk with a link to MAN by may 2010.

EK 380
 

The high density A380s are not the 2 class high density versions as they are currently on hold pending a decision by EK. The high density versions that they will get in the short term are still 3 class and only add a small number of seats [about 20 I think] due non-provision of crew rest areas as they will be used on flights lasting less than 8 hours.

Still don't think there is any 1st Class market in this country for EK [or any other airline] outside London.

Er, No.

The building site that is the end of 'B' Pier is not going to be finished by then for a start.

Precarious situation
 

Manchester Airport is facing major financial difficulties, which will shortly involve large-scale redundancies of middle-management. This inside info has come from one of the people privy to the plan for "streamlining the operation".

It should be no surprise to any regular user of the place, or any employee. The proverbial will hit the fan in January. Traffic stats are poor and getting worse. Revenue streams from the grotesque retail areas are way below forecast. Profit projections are so low as to be causing serious concerns with many financial organisations.

What a pity. Mismanagement on an award-winning scale. The airport will limp along, no doubt, but will lose its place as a major international link. And sadly, jobs will go at all levels of skill.

EK A380
 

Emirates are to start A380 service to Manchester by May 2010 according to sources. Hopefully this is true! :)

April 28th springs to mind...

Hopefully it isn't as one or ten of us will lose some much needed 777 work. :eek:

'April 28th springs to mind...' more like April 1st !!

and a quick look to the left reveals an age of 13 !!

I'll leave it with you.

MM

Zurich, Mahon and Sharm el Sheikh now showing on the easyJet website.


A380s for EK at MAN from April is not too far fetched granted that recent months have seen pax numbers consistently over 40,000 per month.

Only had time to check Zurich but 6 days a week from 30th April

Ian B

EK A380
 

These are Emirates A380 current deployment plans to mid 2010 dependent on Airbus meeting their optimistic delivery expectations of one per month;

CDG
LHR 2nd Daily
ICN
FCO
JFK re-introduction
YYZ Daily (from 3 x weekly)
HKG

These are not in order, some routes will use A380s replaced by the "higher" density 3 class A380s on shorter routes such as their european routes

Re EK380.

Must confess I cannot get too excited over this although I do think the prospect of daily A380 ops is wildly optimistic anyway.

Surely it would be better to add another service "if" demand dictates ?

If it did come in, is it also likely to impact on SIA, Qatar and Etihad ?

Also with all the turmoil in Dubai surely Emirates are not immune to this ?

Manch will be down to an 8 yr low by end of 2009 and we can ill afford to lose the meagre sprinkling of services which are left

It is going to take years simply to get back to where we were 2 years ago if it ever happens at all.

We have attracted then lost a shedload of major long haul airlines for a variety of reasons. With Superjumbos operating into 2/3 major European hubs and global alliances there are now far too many vested interests to make new direct point to point viable unless it is a highly lucrative route.

....even if you offered nil landing fees I doubt you would get these flights in !

Sorry MM, don't know what planet I was on when I posted that - I did mean 1st!:ok:

I would have thought a third daily would be more beneficial to MAN, but thats just my opinion.