It may be the "pessimist" in me coming out but I'll believe it when I see it. I still don't believe that MAN has the infrastructure in place to cope with a regular A830 operation :confused:

does anyone know when MAN-Marrakach will be bookable on EZY?

So, between now and January, 6 months, EK and MAN will have all the infrastructure and ground support necessary to turnround a 380?

Can't see it myself. The Engineering Type course takes 3 months + on job training and then another 3 months to get it on the EASA/CAA License.
AFAIK no one on the airport is currently type rated.
Unless of course EK are setting up their own base of operations.......:ooh:

Where's me CV?:)

Emirates have confirmed that an A380 will be at BHX on 9 Sept, so if BHX can cope surely MAN can ?

BHX5DME

It hasn't been yet......i would wait until it's departed before making that statement!!

GavinC

Rak is on sale from today, the new routes are in the booking engine..

Some very good prices for Rak...

It takes a special sort of person to be able to ask this:

And then later state this:

in the same day...:rolleyes:

Haven't seen it on here but believe VS are dropping UVF ?.

My heart says A380 but my head says morning flight...

MUFC
 

What if the morning flight WAS an A380:E

VS canned UVF permanently when the route was withdrawn, and didn't make it seasonal. It may be ideal for A330 ops though (as long you're not known as bmi).

Ref: A380
 

I might have had too much sun but....... I think MAN could just about cope with the A380. The only bottle neck would be for pax at Gate 31.

The new departure lounge is plenty big enough to keep the pax shopping (and not sitting down).

The baggage hall could cope depending how many desks were open.

The ramp is basicly just the same as A330/340 cargo in front, bags in the back not an issue.

It could cause a few small delays while it takes a tour around the taxiways but it would only be one a day.

Bring it on!

3 cancelled flights on the board today; bit unusual. Any idea why the VS to Orlando was scrubbed?

VS75 operated as planned, although was late due to late inbound aircraft. I think VS73 was on the board in error - the timetable on the VS website suggests that it only operates on Fridays 17/4-13/6; 10/7-25/9 and 9/10-23/10.

Isn't the VS73 aircraft redeployed to Glasgow to operate VS71 in July for Scottish School Holidays ?

Just got back from a 3 week trip. On the 11th June when I departed to Amsterdam the EK flight(midday) was arriving. It was strange to see it taxi past the pier at Terminal 1, come towards terminal 2 and then perform a 180 degree turn through the pad opposite 2 and then taxi back to the pier on Term 1. Any ideas why?

Coming back Flybe from Frankfurt to term 3, why this upstairs/downstairs business? Also find it always seems to be a long way to baggage, tho in no way as bad as arriving at Frankfurt where it's a VERY long way to get your bags!

It's sort of simple really

Upstairs is international arrivals and departures.
Middle floor is domestics
Ground floor - well, thats where the runway is!! :8

All that up and down stairs business as you put is an attempt to comply with UK Government mandate of total separation of arriving and departing passengers.

A total nonsense really since both will have been vetted de shoes sniffed etc...

These regulations plus the requirement for an increasing number of nationalities to have Transit Visas and ADP are making the UK a place best avoided for connections.

The Emrites has to take a bit of a ticky tour because its too big to turn directly off the taxi way onto stand 31 apparantly.

Re: separation of passengers
 

What i don't get is that at MAN we have to take stupid routes up and down stairs but at Edinburgh all passengers just mingled together in the lounge regardless as to whether they were departing or arriving. It makes MAN look bad and is completely inconsistent!

This is a so called "unclean Airport".
EU regulations demand that arriving and departing passengers are kept apart.