Recently TOM have been escorting pax over to the SAS Radisson for food on such long delays.

Looks like the Car Park Madness game is now in full effect. Spoke to one of the bus drivers on the way in this morning and he tells me that the car parks folks expect that the apron parking spots will be full by lunchtime today and that the remaining overflows for passenger parking will be full not long after that. With the apron and overflows filled, they still expect an excess of passenger cars (based on pre bookings) to be 'a couple of THOUSAND'! Where are they planning on putting these couple of thousand excess cars? You guessed it folks... STAFF WEST! Should be fun for those coming into work over the next several days! I know that my employment contract states that the company pays for my car parking. If there is nowhere to park, guess i will just park up in the multi story. See if the company will pay for that!

I dont know why they dont just close down all the stands along the back row on November. There's sod all parking there anyways. Besides, we would look like a busy airport again with all the night stoppers on contact stands!

Don't forget that the large Airparks facility at Handforth Dean has now ceased trading, so the cars that were booked for "their holiday stay" there have had to find somewhere to go.

Brakes put on airport drivers as car park closes - Manchester Evening News

So where are staff expected to park now?

Area 7 is almost always full (and you/the company has to pay extra for it) and recently Staff West has started to look very full early in the mornings, along with the staff bus!

I'd imagine they'll use the smaller section of Staff West where they cut a big hole in the fence a few days ago for pax parking if that's the case :{

As I understand it... THey are gonna send pax to staff west.. to hell with the staff.

T3 is a mess these days, since they moved security. Having lived in the NW for 30 years I know the airport well, but for occasional travellers, navigating from T3 security to the main lounge is horrible, with poor signage and no obvious routes....a bit like parts of NCL. T3 needs more than a coat of paint!

It is one corridor what is so confusing, yes T3 needs a make over but lets not get carried away. I ws told earlier in the year that the improvement plans had been delayed by the recession, which is perfectly understandable.

I am seasoned traveller but visited for the first time last month and wondered up and down trying to find my way about. Wasnt impressed.

A quick glance at the new "airside" parking at T2, A conservative estimate of spaces I would say 300+

300 x £30 a week = £9000 a week !!!!!:hmm:

Surely that more profitable than parking out of work airliners ? Although the security fencing must have cost a fortune.

Hope your being sarcastic :}

Few concrete blocks with a bit of chain link and some spikey barbed wire :8

Manchester Airport Group still in Profit
 

Profits down 28% at Manchester Airports Group : Manchester Airport News Stories

Any comments on these?

Seem pretty good considering the general state of UK aviation in the
last year or so.

Pete

Re MAG Profits...

Sorry to be idle but do we have the split of which airports made a profit /Loss ....?

I have been told by a member of MAG that a T3 overhaul of facilities, signage and access after security will start quite soon for the remainder of the year.
She also told me that Apron parking is for valet parking overflow only, and not accessible to regular cars or staff. The car park congestion is apparently due to a push by the airport to sell it's own services - which have proved very popular - and the demise of several outside firms... Airparks especially.

anyone know what the deal is with the two white tails parked up in the corner (75's I think)?

I think they are registered to Thomson.

Tram link to the airport is confirmed.

Will be a 12min service (5 trams per hour) like the Eccles line is at present.

Not intended for connecting the airport to the city centre, rather the places along the line to each other, especially large parts of South Manchester which currently have no rail connections.

This line is being entirely funded locally and has no dependencies upon Whitehall for funding hence the green light in the current economic situation.

Greater Manchester Transport fund is paying.

GMPTE.com - GMPTE

Airport workers to get consession travel on Metrolink when it reaches the airport.

Myebook - Manchester Matters

July Traffic
 

Pax - 2,023,295 down 1.22%

Movements - 15,922 down 3.34%

Freight - 10,737 up 24.82%

12m Pax up to 31.07.10 - 17,889,811 down 9.67%

Is it true a Virgin lass got knocked down in Staff West the other day?

Staff west is a complete joke.

Taking longer and longer to get in there each day and theres becoming less and less parking spaces, even those right in the top corner near the cargo center are starting to be used!

Apparently staff will be able to use the first set of barriers which is currently only used by the busses, like we used to be able to when we had a proper car park :ok:

Overheard two people on the bus the other morning talking about the state of the car parks and one of them said he'd wrote an email, and received no reply from MAG. I'll be emailing them shortly and it's probably best if more do so too :ok:

Car Park Administration
Tel: 0161 489 2020
Fax: 0161 489 3555
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]
Email: [email protected]

If you think you have a Health & Safety issue and the airport is ignoring it, contact the Health and Safety Executive at Grove House, Skerton Road, Manchester, M16 0RB, Fax: 0161 952 8222.:ok: