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Using Manchester Airport (Questions & Reviews)
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Overall had a very good journey through Manchester today. Security was busy but being able to keep everything in the one bag and keep the boots on makes it a lot easier. T2 was busy but the experience was good. Will do a trip report about the whole journey at a later date.
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With Manchester's Terminal 2 transformation project well into its final stages, the airport is a completely different beast compared to five years ago. The goal was to create a world-class mega-terminal and finally phase out the ageing Terminal 1.
For those who have flown out of the newly expanded T2 recently, what’s the verdict? Does it finally give the North an airport to rival Heathrow's T5, or has the expansion brought its own set of teething issues with walking distances and security queues?
And for the traditionalists will anyone actually miss Terminal 1 when its retirement is fully completed, or is it a case of good riddance?
My last journey from the airport was last year to the Dominican Republic. I can't say I was wowed but I had a pleasant experience which is what I expected.
My first experience of Manchester airport was back in the 80's on a family holiday to Spain from Terminal 1. I remember being mesmorised by the huge chandelier.
The airport has seem tremendous changes during that time since then. What are your thoughts?
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For those who have flown out of the newly expanded T2 recently, what’s the verdict? Does it finally give the North an airport to rival Heathrow's T5, or has the expansion brought its own set of teething issues with walking distances and security queues?
And for the traditionalists will anyone actually miss Terminal 1 when its retirement is fully completed, or is it a case of good riddance?
My last journey from the airport was last year to the Dominican Republic. I can't say I was wowed but I had a pleasant experience which is what I expected.
My first experience of Manchester airport was back in the 80's on a family holiday to Spain from Terminal 1. I remember being mesmorised by the huge chandelier.
The airport has seem tremendous changes during that time since then. What are your thoughts?
#MAN#ManchesterAirport
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Grief no. It’s not world class. Not even near the best in Europe.
It’s a cheap as possible extension of T2 that already is heading to under capacity. Not enough gates hence T1 only closing by name. Land side access can’t cope due to not building what was needed. As much F&B and shops crammed in as possible. Cheap materials on walls and floors used that are now coming to bite them. Convoluted layouts. A joke of BA domestic arrivals compared to T3.
We’ve used it quite a lot and will stand by that security, immigration and baggage have had impressive processing times but it’s a shame they’re in the facility that they are. Could and should have been better. T2 in 1993 was a better experience.
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I don't use Manchester as much as you guys do, but looking at it from the outside, you’ve both completely exposed the gap between the shiny marketing brochure that we saw initially at the start of this project and the actual reality on the ground.
The point @marni1971 makes about Terminal 1 closing "by name only" is a perfect example. From what I understand, they've 'closed' T1, but Ryanair passengers still have to trek through the old T1 entrance and security just to walk all the way back into Terminal 3? If the billion-pound new T2 was actually built with the right capacity, surely they wouldn't need to keep these Frankenstein, patchwork layouts alive just to handle the traffic. It sounds like they've basically built a giant shopping mall with security lanes attached, rather than a properly integrated airport terminal. Didn't a couple of piers get shelved?
And @KARFA is spot on calling the facility as "world-class" when the BA domestic arrivals setup is actively worse than a terminal built in 1993 is just bizarre. It feels like classic modern value-engineering. Spend all the budget on high-margin duty-free areas and premium retail strips to trap passengers, while using cheap finishes on the walls and floors that look tatty after a few heavy summer rushes?
If the landside access and car parks are a bottleneck before you even step inside, it doesn't matter how fast the security queue moves. It really sounds like they've just shifted the old, famous bottlenecks out onto the approach roads and the tarmac although the new ANPR charges don't help either!
The point @marni1971 makes about Terminal 1 closing "by name only" is a perfect example. From what I understand, they've 'closed' T1, but Ryanair passengers still have to trek through the old T1 entrance and security just to walk all the way back into Terminal 3? If the billion-pound new T2 was actually built with the right capacity, surely they wouldn't need to keep these Frankenstein, patchwork layouts alive just to handle the traffic. It sounds like they've basically built a giant shopping mall with security lanes attached, rather than a properly integrated airport terminal. Didn't a couple of piers get shelved?
And @KARFA is spot on calling the facility as "world-class" when the BA domestic arrivals setup is actively worse than a terminal built in 1993 is just bizarre. It feels like classic modern value-engineering. Spend all the budget on high-margin duty-free areas and premium retail strips to trap passengers, while using cheap finishes on the walls and floors that look tatty after a few heavy summer rushes?
If the landside access and car parks are a bottleneck before you even step inside, it doesn't matter how fast the security queue moves. It really sounds like they've just shifted the old, famous bottlenecks out onto the approach roads and the tarmac although the new ANPR charges don't help either!
marni1971
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Pretty much.
Those in the know say they initially went public and only after that were told how much it would actually cost. The value engineering is well known now. MAG actively put the shareholders before the public or the facility they were building (as stated from their own report)
Contrary to popular belief the cost cutting - including halving the piers - happened in early 2018. Sadly Manchester will be saddled with T2X for a long time.
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