From the link it appears that there is a plan in place and the airport is getting the right focus needed from the councils. With an extra 400 staff due to start in April things should improve.

It doesn't help if you are stuck in those lines but travel demand is has grown very quickly after the worst of the pandemic (as you would expect it to) but people are coming down like flies with new (hopefully milder) covid variants so employes still need to self isolate and this will add to the disruption. The UK also has significant labour shortages due to the type of post Brexit deal the UK signed with the EU. I also don't hear those people that complain about the airport raising money from drop off charges clamouring to pay increased costs for flights. Perhaps increased salaries/ bonuses are the way forward to attact staff but I still think we need to reflect on what the industry has been through over the last 2 years, the current covid/ labour situation in the UK and to keep things in persepective.

It's great to see that passengers are coming back and airlines are growing their route network at MAN. Yes it would be nice if things were easier but let's have a bit more glass half full commentary shall we 🙂

It should also be noted that it is not a problem solely at Manchester

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news...worsen-3621163

Thanks for providing some context pwalhx.

not got a press statement but BHX has been a disaster theses last few weeks as well. Seems an industry wide issue with handling agents and airport security, Only hope they can get staff in ,vetted and trained before summer peak.

Its actually a catch 22 from what I hear, the stress and pressure for little reward means quite a few staff have quit after only a few weeks in the job

IFc84
You will have to give me a better clue, as I have looked and been unable to find anything re T2 and Fast Track for Immigration inbound to UK like T1. Also the last time I used T2 with Singapore, I do not re call see a fast track at immigration though it was along flight so may have missed it. Thanks in anticipation.
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Mr Mac

https://www.manchesterairport.co.uk/...ity-fasttrack/

https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....2ea003f116.png

I’ve not used T2 since 16th January but I don’t recall seeing immigration fast track then…but I’ve definitely seen it in T1…and it’s quite obvious too!

Went out from T1/T3 to Heathrow this morning. Arrived at T1 check in at 8.30am, relatively quiet but took about 30 mins to check in due to document checks. Security in T1 was very quiet, 4 lanes open, but 15min wait due to a young lady who obviously didn’t have a clue about the rules and had around 4/5 liquid bottles well over 100ml! Staff friendly and apologetic for the wait. Bag was unfortunately rejected, no reason given, so this was an additional 10min wait, again staff friendly and apologetic for the wait.
It was a 5min walk to T3 airside…very quiet, it was around 9.30am at this point so very few departures…hence I picked a flight around this quiet time (10.40am). Gate 142, which really needs seating, waited 30mins due to late arrival of aircraft from LHR.
On the whole, a good experience. Plenty of customer service staff in both terminals on hand to guide passengers and walking around observing in general. T3 looks refreshed, floors shiny and various areas repainted. It’s certainly not the best of terminals functionally, but good to see it reopen!

Just reading some tweets on Twitter about the airport today! Took 3 hours to get through security as there was only one security lane open?! Had to wait on plane as no one to offload passengers? These are a couple of many comments for which I think are made up! Yes it’s not that good atm but so is every airport in the U.K.!

Any particular times, airlines mentioned or terminals? I was at the airport from 6.30am until 10.50am this morning, on level 13, in terminals 1 & 3 and didn’t witness this…not saying it didn’t happen, but certain stories are overextended or made up!

says T1 as they had to hold the emirates flight at lunch to get all the passengers on

Possibly…according to FR24 a lot of T1/T3 flight departed late this afternoon…something that has to be put up with in the short term unfortunately

As I thought no inbound fast track in T2 only in T1. I had already looked there and tried to open it so not sure why you screenshot it. As I said anybody know why ?
Cheers
Mr Mac

It's not just those two. It's across the board. Refuellers, Engineers, Airport maintenance, cleaners etc. The combined effect means if its not one thing causing delays its another. Every aircraft turnround will have either late refuelling, late maintenance, late tug, late off load, late passengers etc. Its incredibly frustrating for everyone not just the pax who are paying for it. I just hope we don't have an incident caused by pressures on any of the above because that really would be a tragedy.

Cathay back?
 

I realise that it's already April 1st in Hong Kong, but I picked this up from another thread and it looks to be authentic. If true it is most welcome, but the recently published ACL report for Summer 2022 showed CX holding no slots for HKG-MAN. Could this be just a one-off series of student-specials as we approach the end of spring term?

https://travelweekly.co.uk/news/air/...ong-uk-flights

From another forum courtesy of SPD travels on twitter:

Cathay Pacific aims to restart its non LHR European routes as follows this summer. But when it comes to Hong Kong, changes are likely.

AMS 3 weekly July
BCN 1 weekly July
CDG 4weekly July
FRA 5 weekly June
MAD 3 weekly July
MAN 5 weekly July
MXP 2 weekly Jul

Many thanks
SPD travels
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Traveled through T3 on wednesday via T1 on a 0620hrs departures was expecting the worse especially being first week of summer timetable and rush hour for the first wave of departures,
Arrived at 0500hrs hand luggage only so straight to security queue was just inside entrance where you scan boarding card, 30 minutes later we had cleared security,pretty fast moving but passengers can help with not taking everything out of there bags when they get to the tray be organised and have your electronic items and liquids separate beforehand, maybe a few notices up before people join the queue would speed things up also never understand whilst your in queue why not take your coat off of take laptop out of bag this would release a lot of pressure/time going through
Once through easy walk into T3 and member of airport staff in T1 directing at side of WH Smiths,
T3 not so bad not over crowded but flights are not full yet, they have worked on the toilets and we now have a unisex shared toilet actually spacious and much nicer as toilets go.
Arrived back at T3 1620hrs on Ryanair only around 30-40 passengers on flight waited a good 15minutes to get offloaded cabin crew kept apologise saying waiting for swissport steps were at plane so not sure why we wasn't allowed off, passport control only 1 person on plus e-gates working, but no other flight had arrived prior to ours so straight through

Cathay selling 2 return flights per month in April and May. We'll probably see increased flights as Hong Kong slowly relaxes its borders, but I suspect it will take some time before we see daily flights again.

I agree it does seem strange if CX cancelled previously held slots or didn't apply for new ones if the old slots had already been cancelled. On the other hand, getting slots now shouldn't be a problem I would have thought, and it would certainly be good news for MAN if regular, rather than ad-hoc, CX flights do resume in July.