New BA Manchester routes?

[jameseyre1]

Does anyone know what the 3 new BA Manchester routes will be, and when they will start?

[682ft AMSL]

Speculation is that they're not planning to do anything too exciting and the routes will probably things they can do with existing a/c in the middle of the day between business schedules e.g. 1 x daily runs to places like Pisa.

682

[Ringwayman]

The MAN website reports thus:

New flights to Pisa, Bologna and Vienna.


The flight to Bologna will depart Manchester at 12.55pm from Monday to Friday, returning from Bologna at 5.05pm. On Saturday, it will leave Manchester at 2.45pm, returning at 6.55pm and on Sunday it will leave Manchester at 12.10pm returning at 4.20pm.

The flight to Pisa will depart Manchester at 9.30am daily except Saturday, returning from Pisa at 1.40pm. On Saturday it will leave Manchester at 11.20am, returning at 3.30pm.

The flight to Vienna will depart Manchester at 2.50pm daily except Saturday, returning from Vienna at 7.15pm. On Saturday it will leave Manchester at 8.45am returning at 1.00pm.

The airline will also double the number of flights to Rome, Geneva and Hanover and offer hundreds of extra seats a year with larger aircraft and more flights to Belfast, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Lyon, Madrid, Nice and Zurich. This expansion will result in a fleet of 26 aircraft based at Manchester.

[richardhall99]

Man to Bhd will be a mixture of AR1's and ATP's running four times a day..the times are on the BA.com timetables

[Scottie Dog]

I would take anything on the Web/CRS system with a pinch of salt at the moment - with the exception of the timings for the new routes.

If you look in the CRS at the MAN/BHD service it gives 2 flights within 30 minutes. I suspect that fine tuning is still being done.

Cheers

Scottie Dog

[Ringwayman]

The MAN-GOT service appears to have been pulled but seeing that City Airline are about to commence a 3rd flight (5 weekly nightstopping), overall capacity should remain the same (give or take the two months or so when the overall route will have 4 services).

David

[Scottie Dog]

Hi Ringwayman.

BA7907 still appears in the system for 01JUL!!

Thats in both Sabre and the British Airways system and also in the Aer Lingus system.

As I said earlier - only time will tell.

Be seeing you.

Scottie Dog

[mcdonnellluke]

Hello
I thought BA are increasing capacity on many routes from MAN-but looking at the timetable on ba.com for the summer months there seems to be none on some routes-e.g. Nice which is supposed to be upgraded remains ER4 for the summer and the times seem the same as the winter on most routes.
Luke

[Scottie Dog]

Mcdonnellluke

Nothing personal, but it seems that so often earlier posting are not read before a response is posted.

Did I not say in my earlier post that everything in the CRS and web pages should be taken with a pinch of salt.

Just to reconfirm, it takes time for the CRS to be updated and I suspect that you will see the additional services appearing over the next day or so (well knowing BA it might be the next week or so).

In the meantime keep looking and enjoy the benefits of a superb opportunity to read PPRUNE.

Scottie Dog

[chiglet]

While not wishing to be a "Wet Blanket" on BAs routes, I am at a TOTAL LOSS as to what they are "attempting" to [really] acheive.(spelling?)
They have Removed..Taken Away..Replaced the B737s 130+ seats.. AND repaced them with....146 [100(ish) seats] E135 [49seats].. Meanwhile the "Opposition" [D]LH AF[R] KL[M] SK [SAS] and now CityJet" are "Wiping the floor" with them.[Not my quote]
Paris.. BA,a 146, AFR,an A320- ...50+ seats, ALL FILLED.
Frankfurt, BA an E145.....49 seats DLH an A320 150 seats [only about 10-25 empty]
Amsterdam..KLM(UK) old F100s 101seats....FULL BA's E145s 30 [ish]
I {REALLY} would like to supprt Ba, BUT until they Accept that "LONDON" is only just another airport {Yes I know that it's the "Capital"} then "Regionally" they are going to be second [or even third] fiddle
I wish BA well, but they are going to have to rethink OR Just be a "London Based Airline"
Figures culled from various sources. [Airport/Airline/Magazine]
we aim to please, it keeps the cleaners happy

[Land After]

Since BA put the 146’s on the Manchester routes they’ve lost my business, unless there’s no alternative. 3+3 seating in a 146 + a large framed pax do not mix (2+3, as LH used to fly was just fine). The ATP is marginally better, but not much. So I’ll be taking my AF/LH/SAS 737/320/MD80 and leaving BA regional to slowly decay.

[Scottie Dog]

Ringwayman & Mcdonnellluke

Okay, lets see if I have basically got this right now!

Firstly Ringwayman, your correct and it looks as if GOT has gone - all very quiet with no mention from BA.

The doubling of flights is as follows:

GVA at 1400 returning at 1840
ROM at 1600 returning at 2250
HAJ at 1715 returning at 2105.

Increased seats?

BHD seems to be all 146 except the 1420 which is a DH8
FRA gains extra capacity by swapping a 146 for an ERJ on just 1 service.
NCE goes to a 146 from the ERJ.

Can'nt see any changes but the extra seats might just be because of a change from a small 146 to a 'big' one.

Hope this helps all those who wanted to know.

Must get back to work before the boss catches me out!!

Take care

Scottie Dog

ps - which is bigger, a 146 or an ARJ?