manchester airport

[yimyam]

now I know that this isn't news but just flew into Manchester airport terminal 1, what a mess, the managing director should get the sack.

Arrived on stand 20 mins early, got to the baggage hall, 2 flights per belt with so many trolleys in-between the baggage belts that no one could move (even without a bag), baggage belt broke down twice, all in all waited 1hr 5 mins for bags, no one could exit the baggage hall because of the 'building work' looked to me like they are building offices ??? what they should be doing is extending the baggage belts, so many people in the baggage hall that it took 25 mins to filter out passed the nonsense plasterboard. Then the road system was blocked up because of the rubbish design, hardly designed for getting people in and out fast, oh, you do get 10 mins free parking ! what a load of crap, left airport road system 1hr 55mins after landing, will not use this one again, go to Liverpool, oh, and sack the M.D.

[Ontariotech]

Been around 10 years since I was there last, some things just never change.

How are those floor moving type elevators working then? You know, the ones that don't go up or down, they just move you along without having to walk?

[False Capture]

Try Terminal 3 next time and avoid the low cost carriers.;)

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Ontariotech,

The moving floors are broken. Always.
The escalators are broken. Always.
The windows and doors in the train station are broken. Always.
The barriers in the car parks are broken. Frequently.

:( :{

Still, at least the sheer volume of attractive young ladies passing through makes it a bit more palatable............:ok: :ooh: :ok:

[Shermanator]

Lufthansa are not low cost, and they're never late.
BA are just as capable at screwing up the baggage as everybody else, many's the weekend I've had without my luggage thanks to their top class setup, and the MAN-LGW going tech.
Manchester airport is falling apart at the seams, the flat walkalators are always broken, they always build in the summer, it's a 3rd class airport which will be weighed, measured and found wanting over the next few years as it gets busier.

[arelix]

YY
Airtravel is very much a secondary function of Airports nowadays.

The prime object is to get as many people as they can into the shopping centre and keep them there as long as possible, be they pax, friends of pax or anyone with money to spend.
Delays mean more money and the shops get bigger to cater for this.
The new terminal at LPL is a purpose built shopping centre and MAN is trying to catch up.

[Ontariotech]

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Hahahah....:p

Yea......some things just never change.

[yimyam]

it is pathetic, needs more exposure to get something done, have been to allot of airports but this one looks like a throw back from the 50's, and what's amazing is they talk of an expansion ???, have travelled into mach allot, the travelators still don't work, why don't the bosses walk around the terminal and take a look ?

[pwalhx]

Have travelled in and out of Manchester a lot recently through all 3 Terminals. Sure there is building work in the arrivals area at T1 to expand it, read the signs.

It has it's problems, it's not great some of the time, but mostly it works fine. To be honest I have been to a lot worse. Lets mention JFK and Heathrow for a start.

However having said that, I agree the MD and his senior staff should walk round and lets get Manchester back to being a world class airport.

[AirLCY]

I travelled into MAN last Thu. Trying to get to the station was a nightmare, neither escalator working and only one lift, with a huge queue!

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It's not all bad though - the groovy purple fluorescent lighting in the time tunnels make it look a bit like the setting of some futuristic porno movie........... :sad:

I forget now why that was meant to be a good thing :confused:

[lexxity]

Please tell me yimyam that you put the jist of your post in a letter to one Mr G. Muirhead and if you didn't then please do, they won't listen to the staff who use the shambles of an airport manchester has become so maybe they'll listen to you.

Manchester could be a great airport, but it is being allowed to descend into chaos (it gets worse every year!)!

[mmeteesside]

Mr G. Muirhead lives down the bottom of my road :p All the way up here in Stockton :rolleyes:

Don't think he MD of MAN any more though?

mmeteesside

[lexxity]

You may be right MME. But the letter needs to be sent to whoever is taking responsability these days at MAN.

[Mr A Tis]

Don't waste money on a stamp. I wrote last December about my dreadful experience of MAN. Never got a reply.

[agent x]

How about they just rename it Legoland International Airport, bits and pieces springing up here and there every five minutes and none of it has any uniformity. Pier C aka The Satellite and T1 baggage look like a step back into the 1980's, the station is lilac and green with deep blue glass windows, T2 is a block of stainless steel and T1 resembles a breeze block! What is that about!? Dont even get me started on Staff West!!!

What goes through their minds when they design things for this airport?

Agent X has spoken!:ok:

[Adola69]

I understand that an absailing piece of equipment will be installed at the rail station to allow passengers who wish to catch a train to actually get to platform level, and a ski-lift type of rope-on-a-pully system for those that wish to get from the station to the 'blue tube'! This is because the cretins that MA employ to service the escalators are still on page three of the 350 page document on 'How to repair a broken escalator in 18 months' - this is approximately how long the UP one has been out of service apart from an amazing one week period not so long ago, when it was actually seen to be working!!! It didn't make Sky news however as the headlines were pinched by oil at $60 a barrel. Walked past them today and BOTH the UP & DOWN are out of service. The northbound walkway from T1 was u/s as well, along with those things loosley called lifts in T2.

I'm afraid this is typical of all MA stand for at the moment, - the lowest form of service you can give. ' Check in at the Rail-station' and then spend half an hour figuring out how to get to International departures - absolute joke.

The person who wrote to Mr Muirhead probably didn't get a reply because the bloke can't justify any of his boards spending plans or lack of them! They recently anounced big plans, but I'm afraid they are about four years too late, pax are finding attractive alternatives with less hassle and good facilities. If I want to shop I'll go to the Trafford Centre, - Wooaaa there boy, that's owned by Peel Holdings!! - now there's an idea!!?? SELL SELL SELL!!!:mad: :mad:

[Mr A Tis]

Even the "shopping centres" will be dipping out this summer. Last week (mid-week) from arrival at Premier Parking to being dumped in T1 arrivals took 50 minutes. Add the queue for check-in, add the queue for security = 2.5 hours means no time to shop at all or even buy that lukewarm coffee & soggy Panini for £5.50.
The hassle factor & long long time needed to arrive for short flights, often much longer than the flights themselves, make the alternatives to MAN much more attractive.

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Aaaah, yes, Staff West - the land that time forgot :(

Still, if the rumours are true then it is to be replaced soon with an off site car park somewhere near Abu Dhabi................

And I bet it'll still be quicker to walk in than to bus it :p

[lexxity]

Could we do a staff buy out of the shambles that is MAN? One of the first things I would do is put a bloody coffee shop in South Front T3 to stop pax asking "how do I get through to there?" Pointing longingly at WH Smith et al. And then I would move the staff exit from it's current position in the smoking area :mad: which pillock came up with that one then?
Jesus MAN is a shambles!
As for the queues for check in, when are the desk allocators going to realise that there are more airlines than desks and stop allocating 30 desks to monarch and two to bmibaby (for instance) and then whinging at the check in staff over queue lengths? Is it any wonder most of the staff are having nervous breakdowns?:ugh: :\

[agent x]

Some muppet upstairs organises those, probably has no concept of how to practically allocate the number of desks to the number of flights. Even when it seems that they have got it right, they reissue the bloody sheet at midnight, change all the desks around and keep it a secret. What a joy it is when the passengers tell you which desks you SHOULD be sat at! NOT! :mad:

[unwiseowl]

Every time I step onto one of the moving walkways at MAN, I think of that woman in Italy who lost both her legs when a panel collapsed under her!

[phoenix son]

Sorry about Lexx, it's her hormones you see...:E

Fair enough though, it's about time some of the money this place makes was ploughed back into the INFRASTRUCTURE of the place...Let's turn it into something other than an oversized provincial airport...???:(

[Wasta]

I can only agree that standards at Manchester Airport have declined recently. Arriving in Terminal 1 was a recent nightmare, with queues from the Baggage belt through Customs to the Arrivals Hall. The whole area looked a complete mess, one wonders why they are undertaking work during the summer months? This is also echoed on the taxiways, with new stands under construction presumably to come online in time for the winter. Oh and I think that the MD of the Airport is now John Spooner, not Geoff Muirhead.

[yimyam]

well someone needs their arse kicking, nothing ever works, and these idiots announce an airport expansion in the news, they seem to have found the money to paint the roads around the carparks with various nonsense signs, non of which are helping, just sack the current managers if you can call them that, me, i wouldn't put them in charge of a bath.