Re the Car Journey time From London.......


Left BA Cargo LHR tonight at 17.55 and was in Oldham sat with a nice cool beer at 9pm.....route was M25 M40 M6 M56 and M60........the quickest I have ever done this trip in...............:ok:

Watch those speed cameras matehttp://static.pprune.org/images/smilies/embarass.gifhttp://static.pprune.org/images/smilies/embarass.gif

Ian b

Google gives it as 3h 37m and that compensates for traffic which I personally think it over exaggerates around the London area.

Not that impressive - train and plane would beat you!:}:ok:;)

Dunno once was just starting the car at Old Trafford at 10pm as news came on after a game and at 1am was at Tesco Gatwick filling up with petrol...........driving way tooo fast:)

It would have taken you 3 hours to get out of the OT parking never mind get to London! Trust me! I watch people from the Red Cafe doing it week in week out!:ok:

Hovis
 

More red ink needed for the Olympians!!:{

Long Haul Summit
 

Just found this on UK Airport News....

Senior executives from three global airlines will attend a summit at Manchester Airport's Concorde Conference Centre next month on the airport's position as a hub for long-haul routes. Representatives from Emirates, American Airlines and India's Jet Airways will take part in panel debates on Wednesday, June 17.

Other speakers at the summit include Manchester Airport Group chief executive Geoff Muirhead, Manchester city council chief executive Sir Howard Bernstein, and the chief executives of Marketing Manchester, inward investment agency MIDAS and Salford city council- Andrew Stokes, Colin Sinclair and Barbara Spicer.

Suzeman

Left from Top tier when 90 mins up, we 2 -0 up and ran like hell to get to where parked which was in car park where the old cinema was across the canal.

OTOH when WHU got hit for 6 I got home at 1 am after a 4pm Sunday game.

The Peninsula On-line: Qatar's leading English Daily

Could this become MAN-DOH-SIN?:confused:

OK give me a clue what in the article suggests a Manchester stoppver?

Nothing.

But...

• It is likely to include an onward destination, could be EU
• Abu Dhabi is currently a 4 times weekly 772 service, would to be similar to this
• MAN is in need of a revenue boost and DOH would help massively

Could happen...

I dedicate this post to all those Manchester United fans returning from Rome over the next few days.

It was not the best of nights and I can only imagine the 2 hour flight feels like a return flight on SIN-EWR without the IFE...:\

bmibaby new route to Faro, Starts March 2010

Oh wow! Another new route! I hope we get a link to London or Dublin next - something else original! :}

MUFC fans are more likely to be flying home to Islamabad, or Surrey, or anywhere else other than Manchester. Everyone knows that Manchester's resident footie fans support Manchester City.

DEJECTED MAN UTD FANS MAKE LONG JOURNEY BACK TO SURREY - The Daily Mash explains it better ;)

Some Mancs may also support other teams such as one that was relegated this year from the Premier League.

Interesting that bmibaby's released the timetable through to Easter next year. Plus Faro's only operating 3 weekly. Time for a flying programme to be constructed for the period 28/3/10 to Easter 2010 to see what's given way.

Why does it take so long to get flights out of Manchester on a morning?.
Nearly every flight this morning, and on other mornings, is late!!

Perhaps a reason for the tardiness is that there's single runway ops with 05R/23L being used, as 05L/23R is closed due work in progress with extra taxiing time having to be used given the limitations of the taxiway system?

BMI Baby's publicity regarding the new MAN-FAO service suggests that the flights will only operate between 28 March and 18 April 2010 (ie. over the Easter period). There is no suggestion that the service will continue beyond these dates. Really strange.

Interested in Suzeman's post about the long-haul summit. I was passing through Brussels Airport one morning a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed seeing six Jet Airways A330s all in at the same time - three going east (MAA, DEL & BOM) and three going west (EWR, JFK & YYZ). I'm sure Manchester could handle that type of business. I wonder if Jet Airways is satisfied with its traffic through Brussels???...

On another note, with LHR now having shed most of its domestic routes, and LGW having nothing much in the way of domestic flights to points south of MAN or east of NQY, could MAN emerge as a credible contender to be the UK's premier domestic hub? Be nice to see connections to the likes of CAX, PIK, NCL, MSE, CWL, BOH in addition to the current 11 (I think) GB mainland destinations served.