"Agreed. All this LPL/MAN willy waving is tedious and infantile; no wonder the Mods have to wade in so often".

This contributor is certainly not rattled by the City Of Liverpool, infact I view it as of little significance personally !

I would however concede that the MAN V LIV airport argument is a different matter and ALWAYS warrants further examination, not least given the impact that Liverpool and indeed to a lesser extent Leeds and Blackpool Airports have potentionally had on Manchester Airports traffic volumes in recent years. It took Peel Holdings (which just for the record is a Manchester Based Company) to turn a loss-making white elephant previously owned some years back by that beacon of capitalism "Merseyside City Council" into a major international airport. There is little doubt that this hit Manchester Airports traffic growth and remains a valid on-going discussion point on this thread.

BUT if people are going to wade in with blatant comments about the city itself in more general terms, on what is after all a discussion group about MANCHESTER AIRPORT and related topics I do feel that there s/b at least some right of reply !

"Air Livery opens doors this Sat with arrival of AWACS for repaint."

As already quoted, Air Livery open their doors this coming weekend. What I did not aprpeciate - until informed in another forum - is that Air Livery have apparantly closed their facility at Bistol Filton. If this is correct, and I have no reason to doubt the fact, then Manchester is their only wide-bodied paint shop.

Wrong again it was Direct Holidays and Easyjet who set LJLA on its way. may I also say all the coments from my last post are from Manchester ect but not Liverpool nuf said:ugh:I can remember then also Manchester didnt want anything to do with easyjet. how the mighty have fallen:E

Rapidman 47

Your enthusiasm for Liverpool is commendable. But please get your facts right. Bagso is quite correct. To deny the role of Peel in the early development of Liverpool is just crazy. Direct Holidays started at LPL in 1995 but Peel took a 76% holding in 1997, the same year that Easy started ops there. They invested heavily in facilities which attracted business and captured the boom in lo-cost travel, something that MAN did not do until some years later. They took over complete ownership of the airport in 2001. The LPL airport website has all the facts.

From 1997 onwards, it is undoubtedly the case that LPL took traffic away from both MAN and the wider North of England where other airports did not offer the low cost option.

Now MAN has finally got a balance of different types of flights for all types of punter; lo-cost, legacy carriers, long haul, IT and of course cargo.

Let's be thankful we have two thriving airports - or should that be 3 with BPL? - in this part of the world and leave the willy waving to other discussion boards.

Suzeman

Forgive me if I am wrong but isn't Peel a Salford based company?

Head Office:

They actually originate in Bury
, which was then in Lancashire, but is now part of Greater Manchester, as, for that matter is Salford..

All quotes from Peel Holdings website.

Don't know what you are trying to prove lplsprog?

Peel Group are investors in the NorthWest and other parts of the UK as well.

Hope that answers your query. :rolleyes:

And some of the big players in Peel were previously MAPLC employees. I can think of three without even trying.

That's just a statement, with no loyalty either way.

The quicker we reduce the reliance on having to travel via the London airports the better, whether that be from LPL, MAN or BPL!!

well said at last someone with no prob with any of the nw airports I thought i would never see it on this forum:D

Thats not a problem from the Liverpool view point.

Air Livery opens for business
The Manchester facility accepted its 1st aircraft this morning an E3 Awacs
Hope all works well for you new guys

Ian B

VS will be putting a 744 in there in September.

New FedEx service
 

Read the following on TASManchester....

Monday 31st
Fedex commence new 4 x weekly(Mon-Thu) BFS/CDG & EXT/CDG services with SWM – FDX9803 ETA 18.25; ETD 19.10: FDX9805 ETA 18.00; ETD 18.30

I assume the "SWM" means a Metroliner aircraft type? If yes, whose are leasing for these flights?

Surely they won't be sending an ATR72 + 2 Metro's to CDG?
As for whose Metro's they'll be, my vote would go to Swiftair (if they have any spare?) or Trans Euro Air (using Aeronova and/or Binair) ?

Are flybe doing MAN to PMI today ? Is this a one off? Showing on AENA website.

Take-off
 

Looking at scheduled on the manchester airport website: Manchester Airport : Timetables - Other website was completely different, this one however is right.

It appears there is no record of a Flybe doing a flight to PMI.

Yes thats right its a summer seasonal charter service, been operating since start of summer season on Saturdays

Big news
 

Yaaawn...............

Skylink Travelators
 

Why are so many of the moving walkways on the skylink not operating? They seem to have been locked out of use with no one making any attempt to repair or replace defective equipment for months? Do OTIS not actually have a SLA with MAplc? :rolleyes:

Is TOM's biggest network route MAN-DLM? I have just looked at tomorrows services to the resort:

763, 763, 320, 738, 763 :eek:

LGW:

321, 752, 763, 752, 752