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  1. David_itl

    Manchester Airport Transformation Programme

    indeed Mullion https://www.visitbritain.org/news-and-media/industry-news-and-press-releases/visitbritain-awards-gateway-fund-inspire-0 "VisitBritain CEO Patricia Yates said: “This important fund supports destinations to work in partnership with industry to showcase the very best of their...
  2. David_itl

    Daily Direct Link from BHX to the US

    The pity is that the Birmingham region hasn't also been included in the new Visit Britain initiative where they are specifically targetting USA tourism for Northwest England, Peak District, Yorkshire and North Wales using MAN has the principal airport. its the collaboration between various...
  3. David_itl

    CAA Provisional Statistics Update

    i may be going out on a limb with this..... With Aurigny's move coming soon, I would hazard there is room for non-MAN based flying at T3/T1. I should really look this up but for argument's sake, with a Mon-Sat morning service and Sun-Fri evening service there is a potential increase in...
  4. David_itl

    CAA Provisional Statistics Update

    Busiest airports in Europe for 2024 per wiki https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_busiest_airports_in_Europe MAN in 19th place. Athens had a million more passengers and were in 16th, Vienna about 900,000 more passengers in 17th then Zurich 350,000 passengers ahead in 18th. We are still...
  5. David_itl

    Turkish Airlines

    simpleflying.com/37-million-where-turkish-airlines-transit-passengers-fly/ (not linking directly to it) The largest transit market for Turkish Airlines with 54000 passengers is MAN-Islamabad
  6. David_itl

    Route Development & Rumours

    simpleflying.com/37-million-where-turkish-airlines-transit-passengers-fly/ (not linking directly to it) why we can expect PIAs return to BHX - passengers from BHX to Islamabad formed the 2nd largest market for Turkish Airlines with 52000 passengers - just a smidgen less than for MAN.
  7. David_itl

    Daily Direct Link from BHX to the US

    The real question that needs to be asked is of those business class passengers who travel to the States from Heathrow but live in the West Midlands, East Midlands and Somerset/Avon. If the CAA survey also included a question such as f there was a direct flight to the States from BHX to New...
  8. David_itl

    49 trips undertaken last year. First done this year which was to North Wales where...

    49 trips undertaken last year. First done this year which was to North Wales where surprisingly the only slippery surfaces were in Conwy with the castle and it's walls closed due to the ice.
  9. David_itl

    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    There were a few more from MAN last night/early this morning - snowed quite hard for a couple of hours or so
  10. David_itl

    Emirates

    Anyone know when this first started? 11:15 EK17 Dubai (DXB) 11:15 OS7379 Dubai (DXB) 11:15 UA9362 Dubai (DXB) Austrian and United codesharing Emirates flights?! not sure what is up with FR24 arrivals listing as it's not there now
  11. David_itl

    Flyone

    Couldnt see a thread for them - a reminder that this service to Chisinau starts on Sat 21st Dec and is 2 weekly (when announced, it was weekly on Sat). Tuesday is the other day of operation but in summer it will change to Monday and Friday
  12. David_itl

    easyJet

    also on sale is MAN- Milan Linate in addition to the Malpensa service
  13. David_itl

    Kuwait Airways

    Back to the A339s next year it seems on 2 of the weekly services from July to mid September https://www.aeroroutes.com/eng/241217-kuns25339
  14. David_itl

    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    2 from EDI today TK1345 A321 TC-LPN FR6697 737 EI-EKI
  15. David_itl

    Route Development & Rumours

    The critical thing that's impacting prospective route planning for airlines is supply chain issues to improve aircraft production rates. Airlines will have an internal timescale for when to launch a route, sometimes they will make it public. For the time being, for the likes of MAN and BHX...
  16. David_itl

    Route Development & Rumours

    PIA won't feature until they get the all clear from the CAA. So perhaps February announcement for a late March/early April start for them
  17. David_itl

    Daily Direct Link from BHX to the US

    The other thing is the "know it alls" who actually dispute that anything transatlantic could ever be possibly profitable from the regions with one dismissing Aer Lingus UK registering a decent increase in profits by saying how few routes they do.... yet ignoring that only 1 of them could...
  18. David_itl

    Your wishlist for BHX

    i would also state the introduction of a service to mainland China should also be on the cards. the only recent thing I can find on the agreement is this "Under the new deal, passenger flights can now increase from the current maximum of 40 per week for each nation to up to 100. There will...
  19. David_itl

    Daily Direct Link from BHX to the US

    United is feeling the pinch at LHR. Them, AA, BA, DL, VS all operating multidaily services to the popular destinations means it's become a bloodbath. Far better strategy would have been how Continental did it, scatter far and wide so being a big LHR disruptor. You only have to look at the...
  20. David_itl

    Weather & Technical Diversions, Delays & Cancellations

    Wizzair A321 from LTN and pseudo-KLM E170 from Southampton look to be heading in A 2nd Wizzair A321 on its way after not attempting a LTN landing then going around at STN, followed by another that didn't attempt a LTN landing Now a Ryanair 737. earlier diversions from LTN were easyJet A320...
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