New airlines into Manchester

[Vampy]

Any plans for major airlines into Manchester in the future. I heard South African were looking at Manch. Also heard that Cathay were going to start up again. Anyone heard anything? :confused:

[EK]

Hi,

Here's a list of changes for summer 2004:

In addition to this there is talk of American operating a flight to Boston, not sure if this is 757/767 yet. There is also talk of American opening up a route to Miami later in the year, I've heard it mentioned to be 5 times weekly in the summer and daily in the winter??
US Airways are rumoured to be looking at an additional daily flight to Philly, the loads on their existing one are fantastic.
Qatar Airways are going daily to Doha with the A300.

SAA, I had heard that they would be looking at Manchester when they get the ex Lufthansa A340's.
Thai is also rumoured to be considering Manchester, apparently they are awaiting delivery of an ex United 747 and then plan to launch flights to Bangkok, it looks like this flight could be via Munich though.
Gulf Air is seriously looking at Manchester, not sure if this will be mainline or Gulf Traveller. Its either going to Bahrain or Abu Dhabi.
Syrian will serve Manchester as an extension of their LHR service.
I had heard that Cathay were looking at returning, but i'm not sure about this one. They seem to have a good set up with codeshare on the BA shuttles to LHR and then connect on. Besides they operate 3 times daily to HKG from LHR now.
BMI's 3rd airbus is operating for the mod, however when it returns there is talk of it operating to either Miami or Toronto (possibly replacing the Air Canada service.


Air Canada - Change equipment from B767.200 to B767.300.

Air South West - Continuation of proposed Winter 2003/2004 services to Plymouth & Bristol with Dash 8.

Aer Lingus - Reduce Dublin service from 6 to 5 x daily with B737.

Alitalia - New 2 x daily Milan-Malpensa service with A319 equipment.

Blue One [formerly Air Botnia] - New daily evening Helsinki service with Avro RJ8

BMI baby - will base 4 B737.300s for the season with new service to Bordeaux; Paris-CDG; Jersey; Ibiza and Knock.

Braathens - 4 x weekly to Oslo with B737.700.

British Midland - Increase Glasgow services from 5 to 7 x daily.

BWIA - Increase Bridgetown/Port of Spain service to 2 x weekly with A340.300.

Continental - Change equipment on Newark service to B777 for period 16/05/04-08/09/04. Continue with B767.400 on other dates.

CSA - Increase Prague service from 10 to 13 x weekly.

Cyprus - Increase Paphos/Larnaca services from 4 to 5 x weekly with A320.

EU Airways - New 2 x daily Aldergrove service with Fokker 100.

Federal Express - 4 x weekly Paris-CDG-MAN-Memphis freight service with MD11 from 30th August.

Fly Be - New 4 x daily to Jersey & Southampton; 3 x daily to Belfast-Harbour and daily to Guernsey with Dash 8 400s.

Hapag Lloyd Express - Reinstate morning Colgne service and new 2 x daily Bilbao service with B737.700 + new 4 times weekly service to Stuttgart

Hellas Jet - New 2 x daily Athens service with A320.

Iberia - New 2 x daily Madrid service with MD87.

Kibris - Increase from 2 to 3 x weekly Dalaman service with B737.800.

LOT - Increase existing 6 x weekly Warsaw service to daily.

Malev - Reinstate Budapest service, daily with B-737.600, which will overnight at MAN.

My Travel Lite - New daily Gerona & Palma service with A320.

Olympic - Increase Athens service from 2 to 4 x weekly with B737.400.

PIA - New 2 x weekly Chicago & Toronto service with B777.

Any more rumours?

EK

[chiglet]

EK,
Flybe, a no-no [Can't get the slots]
Haven't seen Air South West [yet]
BWIA have yet to get the a/c
PIA, [if roumours are to be "believed"] 50 rotations per week!
There was also a "rumour" that EZY wanted some slots:hmm:
watp, iktch

[Stand 22]

Alitalia have been returning to MAN for the last 4 years!

Can't see MYL expanding at the moment and rumor is it will be absorbed back into MyTravel Airways in 2004 anyway.

Wasn't MAN supposed to become PIA's European hub?

Last rumors I heard were United are looking at routes to MAN and EK are to start bringing the A340-500 in on some flights.

[Caslance]

The Return Of Alitalia seems to be pretty well definite, but don't hold your breath waiting for the EK A340s!!!

My information is that they will be mostly used on services between Dubai and Australasia/South-East Asia.

I, too, have heard the EZY rumour. The version I heard involved the Swiss arm of the company. I'll believe it when I see it, personally.

The only thing that we can be sure of is that reality will differ from the list of proposed changes - the only question is to what degree.

[limpbiscuits]

If all these rumours are true....

What will those terminals look like at peak times....

This summer it was like Argos on Christmas Eve.... only dirtier.... and with more leisurewear..... VILE !!!

Something really needs to be done...... you cannot even find anywhere to sit.... except on a very dirty toilet.... again... VILE !!

VILE .... VILE.... VILE......

[BAe 146-100]

Do you think HLX's new 2 x daily Bilbao service and new 4 x weekly service to Stuttgart will be successful?

BAe 146-100

[GOLF-INDIA BRAVO]

Alitalia is already bookable and I believe the American flight is to be launched this week along with a change to the Chicago going via Glasgow but with a B777 rather than a B767 slug
Iberia are going to operate in conjunction with Air Nostrum a daily
Madrid service and I believe that some of the PIA flights
stateside are being pulled from BHX and upgraded to B777
because B777 are not able to operate with a full load from BHX

Golf India Bravo

[Thomas_Cook_757-300]

If all these rumours are true....

What will those terminals look like at peak times....

This summer it was like Argos on Christmas Eve.... only dirtier.... and with more leisurewear..... VILE !!!

Something really needs to be done...... you cannot even find anywhere to sit.... except on a very dirty toilet.... again... VILE !!

VILE .... VILE.... VILE......

I'm sorry but what do you hold against MAN? In your statement above you seem like your trying to make the airport sound as bad a possiable when really it is a superb airport. Yes, maybe it can get a bit crowded but there is always somewhere to sit, NO it's not dirty what so ever (airports have no bins yet at MAN you see very little litter) and SO what if there aren't masses of business men walking around, MAN as with LGW are typically holiday airports with a lot of charter activities. Myabe we should all go out and buy a suit for our next visit to MAN so we don't look to common? :rolleyes:

Thanks

Thomas_Cook_757-300

[EGCC]

As much as I like MAN, Terminal One is becoming a joke with the security queue's. The problem needs sorting, I previously thought it was merely due to the summer rush, but when you're seeing queue's stretching back into the check in hall on a typical November morning something isn't right. Adding more flights is merely going to make the problem worse if the airport doesn't get its act together.

[glynn-kayes]

who are EU airways and when are they starting sevices to ALDERGROVE <ie BELFAST INTERNATIONAL>?

[Tom the Tenor]

Guess it must be the Shannon based EU Jet? They have either one or two Fokker 100s. BFS-MAN sounds like a good idea. :)

[Buster the Bear]

From memory EU Airlines are a paper airline planning to operate B717's.

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[TURIN]

I believe the American flight is to be launched this week along with a change to the Chicago going via Glasgow but with a B777 rather than a B767 slug

Are you sure???

US Airways are rumoured to be looking at an additional daily flight to Philly, the loads on their existing one are fantastic.

Christ on a bike!!!:D

MAN had better start building that extension to T2 quick then.

Last I heard about PIA was that it was to be the European hub with over 70 weekly movements. Also that they wanted their own dedicated terminal.:eek:

[BombardierCR7]

According to the Hapag Lloyd Express website for Summer 2004, there is 1 x daily Cologne and a 4 x weekly Stuttgart from Manchester. No mention of a second Cologne rotation or any Bilbao operation.

[runawayedge]

Baby to Knock service would also appear correct...wonder what will happen to cxpress

[IceHouse]

PK to increase to 70 flights a week??? Apart from the expected 5 or 6 extra flights from BHX and maybe 4 extra stateside flights each week to complement the present 14 departures, where would all these additional movements come from?

[ALLMCC]

If EU Airways or EU Jet or whatever start BFS - MAN, it will be interesting to see what happens to the Baby service - difficult to justify two carriers on this route from BFS and BACX from BHD!

[Scottie Dog]

The V-Bird website now shows a Niederrhein/Manchester service - due to start 29th January. Flights appear to be daily except Saturday.

Scottie Dog

[GOLF-INDIA BRAVO]

Worth seeing just for the fantastic colour scheme

Goodluck to you all

Golf India Bravo

[Flight Level Zero]

According to local media, Flybe have announced no services from Channel Islands this summer due to unavailability of suitable slots.