Laid off
 

This was in the coming,menzies laid so many people off,reduced the night shift to two or three crews..three men teams no wonder its pants..men do 8 hour shifts no breaks.mr geddes should hold his head in shame..it will happen again.They got rid of skilled people and replaced them with partime staff,whos white passes had run out,menzies managment is à joke..dont blame the baggage lads blame their bosses . ...

it will happen again
 

This was in the coming,menzies laid so many people off,reduced the night shift to two or three crews..three men teams no wonder its pants..men do 8 hour shifts no breaks.mr geddes should hold his head in shame..it will happen again.They got rid of skilled people and replaced them with partime staff,whos white passes had run out,menzies managment is à joke..dont blame the baggage lads blame their bosses . ...

Bucharest was the one I was thinking about. Not LHR. My mistake.



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I worked for Menzies 6 years ago, seems nothing has changed. Nights only had one team of 3, so we use to stay behind and help do a couple of Jet2 and BMIBabys. One thing i dont agree with when running a company at an airport, is having part-time staff. Most of the men and women that worked at Menzies when i was there have either left or gone to work at another handling agent!!!:bored:

It's my understanding that at least one airline has Menzies on notice

I'm also led to believe that Menzies are on a final warning from Easyjet and Flybe have demanded an urgent meeting regarding the near crisis levels of manpower at MAN. The airport themselves are non too pleased especially regarding recent events in the local press.

The whole airport appears to be having a handling agent crisis at the moment!

Hundreds (dare I say thousands?) of skilled workers have left the airport in recent years, a lot of them replaced by part time, temp, unskilled staff. There's been a lot of shuffling around by airlines heading to cheaper handling agents, and subsequently receiving a frankly crap service. Those gaining the contracts aren't taking any staff on to keep costs down and keep their heads above water, which leaves them massively understaffed for the flights they have.

Those who have lost contracts have had to axe a large proportion of the workforce to remain afloat, once again, leaving them understaffed :sad:

Those of you who fly into MAN (as pax or crew) will have noticed this, especially with the implementation of Safedock recently. Have a look (or a laugh) at the Flybe rush hour and see how many are holding on taxiways waiting for dispatchers to Safedock them onto stand...

Don't blame the guys on the ground, we're all trying our damn hardest, not much you can do with massively top heavy companies...

JET (India) for MAN ??
 

Norwegian Air Shuttle & Jet Airways
 

I've heard Norwegian Air Shuttle have been doing well at LGW, especially on the competetive routes, so do you think that in the Future do you reckon they will open a base here in MAN? They definitely have the potential to do well and they do seem quite interested flying from MAN. :)

Sounds very interesting. Would be nice to see Jet Airways here in MAN. :)

Seems part of the Jet Airways statement is already happening.

India's Jet Airways files for Amsterdam slots - ch-aviation.ch

I guess we're next then.

Could someone explain the benefits of Jet flying MAN-DEL/BOM via AUH when they could just fly direct? Going MAN-AUH-BOM and then for example COK would be pointless (unless the price was right) when you could fly MAN-DXB/DOH/AUH-COK without the need to transit through India.

I think Jet plan to link smaller Indian airports to AUH with B737's and offer connections through there

This isn't what the article says - it states:
and

So two seperate elements of the plan - hubbing via AUH AND more direct Europe-India flights.

Easy way of adding a 3rd daily flight into the Etihad hub , already topped up with passengers in a ready market.

It sounds like a way of circumventing the ludicrous protectionist controls placed on gulf carriers by the Indian government, very clever by Etihad as by using an Indian carrier to feed their hub they can get more from the bilaterals.

easyjet add weekly Lyon service from 14 December.

A few hours spent at MAN:


It is a bit shaky and the quality isn't great but stabilising it would ruin it I assume.

Wrong forum chief. Try The Spotters Corner.


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Yyyyaaaaawwwwnnnn ..yet another mind boggling boring clip ...why do people post this dross?