QF CEO Alan Joyce quote
"Manchester and London Gatwick are our best performing destinations outside of London Heathrow. "
wonder what the medium-to-long term indications are for a "proper" QF associated airline to start operating to MAN. Perhaps they might be regretting "encouragement" they received a few years ago from another airline to give up our route.
Jet2 is going to be running a couple of Christmas shopping charters to New York ex-MAN for the 1st time this year.
gfjdb From UK - England, joined Apr 2012, 1 posts, RR: 0 Reply 1, posted (3 months 2 days 21 hours ago) and read 8969 times:
Cathay Pacific Cargo are also starting a new service on the 3rd April using their B748 aircraft. It will operate as CX4068, arrives 06:15 and departs at 08:50
Boysteve From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2004, 876 posts, RR: 0 Reply 2, posted (3 months 2 days 14 hours ago) and read 8711 times:
Quoting david_itl (Thread starter): wonder what the medium-to-long term indications are for a "proper" QF associated airline to start operating to MAN.
Err well surely from March 31st EK will be the said 'QF associated airline'. Unless you are thinking JetStar might make an appearance in which case good luck with your wait!
mainMAN From United Kingdom, joined Jul 2005, 2064 posts, RR: 6 Reply 3, posted (3 months 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 8412 times:
Quoting david_itl (Thread starter): wonder what the medium-to-long term indications are for a "proper" QF associated airline to start operating to MAN.
Pretty much zero, in my opinion. The only chance of that is if they decided on a fleet of (either QF or Jetstar) Dubai-based 787s to fly European legs, for themselves and on behalf of EK........AMS, CDG, FCO etc, and I can't really see the point in that, other than increased market visibility.
Quoting david_itl (Thread starter): Perhaps they might be regretting "encouragement" they received a few years ago from another airline to give up our route.
Possibly. It would be interesting to know how their new arrangement with EK affects transfers and yields on LHR services, especially as Southern/Midland passengers now also have LGW and BHX at their disposal.
skipness1E From United Kingdom, joined Aug 2007, 2382 posts, RR: 0 Reply 4, posted (3 months 1 day 20 hours ago) and read 8369 times:
Quoting david_itl (Thread starter): "Manchester and London Gatwick are our best performing destinations outside of London Heathrow. "
Our as in Emirates not QANTAS.
Quoting david_itl (Thread starter): wonder what the medium-to-long term indications are for a "proper" QF associated airline to start operating to MAN.
You need to understand that this is exactly what Emirates now are.
spiplane From UK - England, joined Jan 2005, 102 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (2 months 4 weeks 20 hours ago) and read 7434 times:
Quoting gfjdb (Reply 1): Cathay Pacific Cargo are also starting a new service on the 3rd April using their B748 aircraft. It will operate as CX4068, arrives 06:15 and departs at 08:50
Am I to understand this is a daily flight? Is it direct from Hong Kong?
david_itl From United Kingdom, joined Jun 2001, 7147 posts, RR: 14 Reply 9, posted (2 months 3 weeks 4 days 17 hours ago) and read 6947 times:
THe flight routes to/from FRA. It's going to be one of the upto 4 weekly service.
STN is now officially part of the Manchester Airport Group as the deal was concluded today.
Loosely MAN related, EK is now sponsoring Lancashire CC with ground naming rights.
LH is cancelling MAN-TXL from the start of the summer season; their UK general manager Christian Schindler" We weren't disappointed with the passenger numbers at all, but the yields were a bit soft because there was so much leisure traffic on the route." But pax numbers on LH were up 7% to nearly 750,000. Business Desk story
MAN2SIN2BKK From Thailand, joined Feb 2009, 202 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (2 months 3 weeks 4 days 7 hours ago) and read 6741 times:
Quoting david_itl (Reply 9): LH is cancelling MAN-TXL from the start of the summer season; their UK general manager Christian Schindler" We weren't disappointed with the passenger numbers at all, but the yields were a bit soft because there was so much leisure traffic on the route." But pax numbers on LH were up 7% to nearly 750,000.
Shame about that, sounds like the right time for Easyjet to increase their schedule
spiplane From UK - England, joined Jan 2005, 102 posts, RR: 0 Reply 12, posted (2 months 3 weeks 3 days 20 hours ago) and read 6496 times:
Saw an all white Metro II today at Manchester, registered EC-JIP. A quick scan suggests this plane is either owned by Via Tauro or Euro Continental Air. Can anyone provide the answer and some more detial of the airline (fleet etc.)?
Boysteve From United Kingdom, joined Apr 2004, 876 posts, RR: 0 Reply 14, posted (2 months 3 weeks 2 days 18 hours ago) and read 6019 times:
Were MAN's runways shut for 30 minutes at lunchtime today? I ask because at 11:30 EK17 was decending nicely over the peak district but it didn't actually land until 12:25, a much longer delay then a simple go around.
Correct, the A380 caused the runway closer. Was at the viewing park when it happened, everything seemed normal at touchdown. We only realised that there was a problem when they didnt taxi off the runway, some had thought it went off the end! I have pics of it being towed to the gate.
Blast Reality, Burst it into shreds! Banishment, This World!
BlueShamu330s From UK - England, joined Sep 2001, 2515 posts, RR: 25 Reply 23, posted (2 months 1 week 4 days 22 hours ago) and read 4239 times:
Quoting LHRjc (Reply 22):
A MON 757 left SYD as MON9934 on 5th March but went to AKL as part of the RTW trip. Not connected to this though as it's still not back.
By chance, I heard MON9233, G-MONK, get airborne from Praia in the Cape Verde Islands this morning. Only TOM fly to Cape Verde from the UK, so it wasn't a regular IT holiday rotation. He dropped into Faro.
Perhaps that was it on the way home?
Rgds
So I drive a 4x4. So what?! Tax the a$$ off me for it...oh, you already have... :-(
flyhi From United Kingdom, joined May 2007, 76 posts, RR: 0 Reply 24, posted (2 months 1 week 4 days 19 hours ago) and read 4074 times:
Quoting LHRjc (Reply 22): Dont they do some round the world private charter tour every year? Though surprised theres no intermediate stop
As LHRjc pointed out, this was not connected but part of the Captain's Choice Equatorial Explorer private jet tour
Quoting BlueShamu330s (Reply 23): By chance, I heard MON9233, G-MONK, get airborne from Praia in the Cape Verde Islands this morning. Only TOM fly to Cape Verde from the UK, so it wasn't a regular IT holiday rotation. He dropped into Faro.
This was an ad-hoc IT flight for Kristina Cruises, a Finnish cruise company, and operated the following:
25 BlueShamu330s: Well, you learn something every day ! Thanks Rgds
26 Mattuk: Ground incident on Saturday affecting the EZY1911 MAN-PMI http://www.manchestereveningnews.co....ight-majorca-delayed-after-1753941
27 david_itl: Revisionist history of passenger numbers in the Evening News today "Number of Manchester Airport passengers hits all-time high" "The number of passeng
28 Mattuk: Interesting article with the UK & Ireland manager for Thai Airways in which he refers to a possible service to MAN? http://www.smh.com.au/travel/t
29 MAN2SIN2BKK: 25 years ago (1988) down at the old car park on the brickworks we heard the rumour that TG were coming into MAN that November twice a week extending
30 lisbonbearuk: Are there any comparabile figures for LPL or LBA, to see if there has been displacement?
31 spiplane: Some interesting planes at MAN today: Any specific reason either one was here? Cheers, Paul
32 oly720man: Jettime seem to have been covering for some of the SK539/40/41/42 flights recently. http://flightaware.com/live/flight/OYJTD http://flightaware.com/l
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