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Possible United Airlines Service From MAN?

8herveg From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2006, 1107 posts, RR: 0
Posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 2896 times:

Since there are no services to San Francisco or Los Angeles, and bmi cannot make Washington D.C. work, is there any chance that United Airlines could offer flights to these cities from Manchester?

Possibly with B767s in a 3-class layout?

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Bicoastal From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR:
Reply 1, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 2890 times:

There are many routes United would like to fly IF they had the aircraft. They're squeezing blood out of a turnip now (meaning doing all the schedule tweaking they can to increase aircraft utilization) but until they buy or lease new aircraft, they're limited. Rome was a surprise...so maybe they'll be able to make Manchester work some day.

Jamman From United Kingdom, joined May 2007, 142 posts, RR: 1
Reply 2, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 6 days 1 hour ago) and read 2849 times:

You could say that perhaps the East coast routes to the US are more or less filled with the amount of East coast carriers servicing MAN at the moment? A unique West coast service might be the way to go for United to enter MAN if they ever wanted to of course! I think perhaps United have stayed away from MAN because of BMI feeding into their services?
*braces him self for the MAN has no cap haters*

[Edited 2006-11-15 15:15:14]

Phoning it in from a place with no phones.

764 From United States of America, joined Jul 2001, 608 posts, RR: 0
Reply 3, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 6 days ago) and read 2788 times:

I think that if (and only if) United actually decides to move out of LHR and sell/lease the slots and the rights, they would move a considerable number of flights to MAN. One or two daily flights into LGW would serve the London market and the LH connections could as well use MAN. But I don't think that UA will make that move - Actually I'd conside rit a mistake (leaving LHR that is).

I don't really think they'll come to MAN otherwise, though. I would rather expect a UA service into DUB.

Philb From Ireland, joined May 1999, 2915 posts, RR: 14
Reply 4, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 23 hours ago) and read 2752 times:

Quoting 8herveg (Thread starter):
bmi cannot make Washington D.C. work,

I rather thought they withdrew from Washington due to lack of aircraft as they wanted to expand into India and Saudi Arabia.

8herveg From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2006, 1107 posts, RR: 0
Reply 5, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 22 hours ago) and read 2658 times:

Quoting Philb (Reply 4):
I rather thought they withdrew from Washington due to lack of aircraft as they wanted to expand into India and Saudi Arabia.

Oh perhaps your right. Well bmi seem to be so all over the place recently, it could be a good idea if United swoop in!

Quoting 764 (Reply 3):
I think that if (and only if) United actually decides to move out of LHR and sell/lease the slots and the rights

Why would they do this? And who would they sell their slots to? BA and AA?

RwSEA From Netherlands, joined Jan 2005, 3017 posts, RR: 2
Reply 6, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 21 hours ago) and read 2579 times:

Could UA join the trend of running 752's across the Atlantic? IAD to DUB, LIS, and MAN all make a lot of sense (MAN and LIS would connect to Star hubs).

Humberside From United Kingdom, joined Dec 2005, 4901 posts, RR: 5
Reply 7, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 2515 times:

Persoanlly in the long term I could see UA taking over bmi's MAN-ORD and bmi moving all long haul aorcraft to LHR

Quoting 8herveg (Reply 5):
Quoting 764 (Reply 3):
I think that if (and only if) United actually decides to move out of LHR and sell/lease the slots and the rights

Why would they do this? And who would they sell their slots to? BA and AA?

UA would be stupid to pull out of LHR. LHR rights are one of their biggest assets and they arent desperate for cash. If UA ever did pull out of LHR I imagine their rights to serve there would end up with DL or CO

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FlyLondon From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2004, 376 posts, RR: 0
Reply 8, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 2482 times:

Quoting 764 (Reply 3):
I think that if (and only if) United actually decides to move out of LHR

It could replace New Coke as the textbook case study in corporate blunders.

UAL777UK From United Kingdom, joined Nov 2005, 3355 posts, RR: 1
Reply 9, posted (6 years 6 months 1 week 5 days 20 hours ago) and read 2460 times:

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Hell will freeze over before UA pulls the plug on LHR, it amazes me that people think that they would even consider the idea! They have now trimmed their routes to fly to their main hubs and particularly at the front end of the aircraft they have good yields.

If they ever did fly out of MAN, IMHO its never going to be to the west coast, more likley IAD where all the expansion into Europe is taking place at the moment.

Certainly I think they could make it work and let BMI concentrate on LHR. However aircraft aside, you'll see other routes opened well before you see UA at MAN.

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