Manchester: TUI Airways Base News & Discussions

[User001]

There were reports MAN was down by 1 B737.

It now appears we have swapped a B737 for a B757 so an increase in seats.

Thank goodness there is *some* good news!

 

[Ray Finkle]

A nice new route to Podgorica starting May 27th, weekly on a Sunday (apologies if it's already been mentioned).

 

[User001]

Nice, brand new destination, 2nd in Montenegro. Nice spot Ray.

 

[User001]

TOM648 MAN 0600 TGD 0955
TOM649 TGD 1055 MAN 1300
Sunday's.

 

[ethanegcc]

TOM648 MAN 0600 TGD 0955
TOM649 TGD 1055 MAN 1300
Sunday's.

Great brand new route, in what otherwise is a very lacklustre summer schedule opening for Thomson at MAN.

 

[User001]

Press releases state that TUI will add a raft of capacity to Manchester.

States that Lanzarote, Tenerife, 'Lapland' and Turkey are the main recipients.

 

[jfy1999]

Judging by a comment on the other forum it looks as though MAN will get a 787-9 next year – seat maps suggest a 789 flying MAN-CUN in September.

 

[User001]

Yes MAN will receive a B787-9 and operate CUN/MBJ and PUJ flights.

 

[speedbird001]

Yes MAN will receive a B787-9 and operate CUN/MBJ and PUJ flights.

Where is this info from? i can't find anything about it

 

[User001]

Seat plans obtained from a friend. I didn't catch which days each flight is though.

 

[User001]

Looks like 18 is in the process of being loaded for MAN.

Nothing new to note just yet, but the good news is that Phuket moves from a bi-weekly operation to 1 weekly.

 

[Dobbo]

Good to see incremental chipping away at a major underserved market.

 

[ethanegcc]

Good news, but it seems Goa has seen a slight reduction? Not sure about Thomas Cook's desired frequencies for India during this period.

Would love to see Vietnam, Colombo, maybe even St Lucia added?

 

[User001]

Goa is only a very very slight reduction.

It's one weekly this winter with a few extra flights dotted about the calendar.

With Thailand being very popular ex-MAN, TOM have added Krabi from LGW this winter, I'd like to think MAN has a shot eventually.

 

[ethanegcc]

Thomas Cook have retained their 4-weekly Goa operations. As said above, I'd love to see TUI get more adventurous and add Phu Quoc, Krabi, Colombo etc. from Manchester. Sri Lanka would be a real nice new route.

 

[User001]

It looks like Krabi may actually be a new route next winter.

When you select Thailand in the holidays section, the weekly Phuket flight on Wed(into the) flight shows, and a bi weekly flight on Fridays shows. As yet, nothing is showing for what that bi-weekly flight could be, as when you select it, it reverts to the Wed Phuket flight.

Also, when you do select a Krabi hotel from a Manchester flight, it does go on to say 'flights to Phuket and Krabi available'.

It's a 'one to watch'.

Another to watch is Kuala Lumpur. Bi-weekly options showing for W18/19 on a Thu, but says 'all gone' when you select the dates. No scheduled airline has flights that far in advance.....

 

[User001]

It's also worth noting that 'Krabi' and 'Kuala Lumpur' are bi-weekly on alternative weeks......just saying...

 

[Dobbo]

KUL: finally (maybe)!

 

[ethanegcc]

Kuala Lumpur doesn't show in the dropdown box - the only destination in Malysia is Langkawi. In addition, they'vwe also added Cochi, Denpasar (Bali), Muscat, Newark amongst others. One to watch.

 

[User001]

Also Male has been re-added.

Make ps you wonder what will happen with Malaysia, as you say, Langkwai is in the flights box but then the holidays bit has Kuala Lumpur hotels loaded. Langkwai is a fair distance from Kuala Lumpur, in fact, Langkwai is probably closer to Phuket than Kuala Lumpur!