Well “Blue Handling” already exists at STN doesn’t it? I wouldn’t be surprised if RYR took it back in house, especially at their larger bases. Although the DHL tie up hasn’t been completely successful has it?

DHL has been good for ezy. They’re well organised and do a great job, definitely short of staff as well but the only big issues occur when passenger security delays in terminal delay flights. Without any spare staff then this causes knock on delays as staff are held up on earlier departures.

However, it’s rare to be let down by DHL and they’re well appreciated/ a great bunch of people. It’s the airport ambulift service or security that cause the biggest ezy delays.

MAG has known since last Sept what the expected figures were going to be, they quoted about 24 million pax for this year. It turns out there are about 22 million seats available after the slots were handed back. As usual they were so cocky that there would be a flood of applicants for the prestigious positions that involve getting up at midnight to be in work for 2 in the morning all on minimum wage.
Attracting staff on these terms is proving difficult indeed there are no advantages or perks forthcoming from MAG to make working life attractive, parking is either one side or the other of the airport, requiring a bus journey into the airport adding an extra 20 minutes at the beginning or end of a shift, whereas they have ample parking in the mid stay car park at Terminal 3 for staff but choose to let passengers park here even though there are a multitude of new car parks with thousands of spaces.for them.And forget a subsidized staff canteen for the thousands that work here every day. Its Greggs or Boots.
Under the current tenure of Charlie Cornish MAG has turned into a once profitable forward thinking airport with no debts into one that owes about 3 billion pounds https://www.magairports.com/investor...OkM5rvGttkMqjI .
And the current pay offer for MAG Employees on the table is a 6.5 percent payrise after 3 years of no rise and a 10 per cent cut over the last 2 years, and a one off offer to buy MAG staff out of their yearly bonus which is usually about £700, the offer to buy you out £700.
The only way out of this is for the Airlines to start coughing up a decent amount for Handling Agents and Services, it is invariably going to mean higher costs for the travelling public but without it they will not get any staff.

It's a shame that Pprune doesn't have a "like" button. There have been a number of excellent posts recently but I don't want to clutter the thread with too many posts such as I'm just writing.
Anyway a big thanks to all who have added constructive comment. And to those whom I don't agree with, thank you for your viewpoint, there are always two sides to a discussion.

MAN-INV
 

EZY starting Manchester - Inverness route × 2/week from July. On sale now 🙂.

2pw from the end of June and also increasing to 4pw from the end of July :ok: and also adding Chania (Crete) 2pw from the end of June.

Correspondence from Aurigny also states that they will be purely operating out of T3 from the 22nd of April, including check in and security so presumably that's when T3 will finally fully reopen!

Thanks for the update planedrive 👍

And it continues...

Manchester: More Easter airport misery as queues reach the car park | Metro News

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/pprune....b2d8f96f8b.jpg

Confused as to where the news is here??? The airport have said that long queues 60-90 minutes will continue for a while longer yet, haven't they?
just because a queue is back to an external door, car park etc, doesn't necessarily mean that it is exceeding what has been flagged.

The article does include this paragraph:
"Today’s queues are understood to have largely subsided by 7am with passengers reporting no issues getting through airport security by around 9am."

The headline also contrasts with yesterday's article:
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co...rport-23699508
But why post a more positive piece if there's a negative agenda to pursue?

With so many flights departing between 06.00 and 07.30, and thousands of passengers arriving early as instructed from 03.00 to 04.30, it's hardly surprising there will be long queues. The important factors are how many security channels are open to process passengers and how quickly the queues subside.

edit: Although the focus has been on security, there is of course the added complication of check-in delays. I'm assuming this morning's problems were primarily security.

Looking at the pictures i would say that's check in problem, if people are to try to get through security with that much luggage we have even more serious problems
not saying theres no problems at security as we all know including myself be stuck there

Fair point. I hadn't looked at the pictures closely enough. The situation at security does seem very variable depending on the time of day, staff available etc. Some passengers have reported only a relatively short time to get through in contrast to long delays last week and earlier.

Surely exacerbated by parallel reports of gross baggage handling shortages leading to bags not being unloaded for hours, or not loaded at all, lackadaisical treatment of missing bag reports, and the bags only turning up the day you are returning.

When baggage handling starts to get treated as something that will be done "if we can", no wonder people want to have their bags with them as much as possible.

"With so many flights departing between 06.00 and 07.30, and thousands of passengers arriving early as instructed from 03.00 to 04.30, it's hardly surprising there will be long queues. "

Surely if it's"hardly surprising" someone could actually staff up in anticipation? Why has it always got to be reactive action only?

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Perhaps because a shortage of staff is why those people are being asked to turn up early.
If there were enough staff then they could turn up at the normal time and be processed normally.

Passengers are being asked to turn up early so that even with the queuing they'll still be able to depart at the scheduled time.

If you don't have enough staff in total you can't move the non existant staff to a different time frame.
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Air Canada - Toronto
 

Air Canada 5 x weekly Manchester to Toronto from June. Business, Premium Economy and Economy seats on sale. First return by them to MAN since the start of the pandemic I understand. Excellent news! 😀👍
https://www.businesstraveller.com/bu...toronto-route/

Easyjet Manchester to Prague cancelled tonight

Tracker states:

"We’re sorry that your flight has been cancelled.
This is due to a foreign object on the runway causing your flight to have a technical issue."

Engine ingested a stone on taxiway L during start up.

STS have announced they will be taking over the old Thomas Cook hangar. Jobs for the boys!