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What's the position with the new Emirates flight to BHX @IanFarquharson ?

Review of SQ business class between MAN and IAH. It is obviously very quiet load wise, but you would expect the airline to permit a test around its most quiet time.

Short interview with Trisha Williams, MAN's Chief Operations Officer on 5live's "wake up to money" programme. When questioned on MAN's network in the lead up to and post-Brexit, it was mentioned that 70% of MAN's network was in Europe, but moving forward: "Our growth aspiration is to have more...

Wamos B744: air livery?

That's one way of looking at it Jerry, although I think you'd acknowledge that a new runway in a couple of years is optimistic even for LHR!!! My take is that it reflects LHR's belated realisation that they are losing (amongst others) the regional connectivity argument and they want to try and...

Yes, but why do you think they are doing that now when they haven't done so for the last however many years?

It is encouraging just how far CX got to with plans for 11x weekly. Perhaps their next round of expansion will bear fruit at MAN. It'll be interesting to see how they do numbers wise over the next few months. December should be their record month at MAN.

It's almost as though they want to artificially boost numbers on regional flights for some reason... https://www.businesstraveller.com/business-travel/2018/01/02/heathrow-cuts-domestic-airport-charges/

If all comes to pass it keeps the numbers ticking over and adds another daily long haul. Not bad.

Wasn't MIA summer seasonal by TCX? Seems odd. I'd have thought MIA (and CPT) would be ideal winter seasonal routes for the downtime when the likes of LAX, SFO are not operating.

Well, Adonis stated reason for standing down is due to the Transport Secretary's decision to bail out VTEC as opposed to setting up a public company as he did in 2009. He probably has a point. Other issues Adonis was a vocal supporter of include LHR Runway 3, Crossrail 2 and NPR (HS3). On...

when the December 2017 data is out I will try and find time to compare the annual totals of the major long haul routes (and short haul to the major EU hubs) against previous years (it might be interesting to see where it lies against 2007 if anyone has the data!

Cheers @IanFarquharson wondering what basis EK would expand BHX during a Lon off peak period when their major European routes have cuts in capacity? Or are you referring to long term expansion?

I think that's a fair comment, but if you look at a June start rather than a March start (which seems more likely for most of the above if they happen) early 2018 is about right.

I was certain I'd forgotten some!