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Doubtful the Manchester services only operate with a huge subsidy from BAE Systems with a shed load of cargo and military contractors. The pilgrim traffic is pretty low on the airlines priorities !

Just a pointer re Gulfair once great - now very diminished they actually struggle to fill their two daily Heathrow services that are scheduled with A332s and frequently mid week flights are downgraded to an A320 ! Similarly they only serve Frankfurt and Paris with the A320. So if they struggle...

Not to Atlanta not got the required performance. The international 75Ws (ex TW) have surprisingly high W seat numbers for their size and are currently deployed across the Atlantic from the base in JFK. Any Atlanta - Europe flights are normally 763 minimum with occasional 333 to Dublin and...

The new terminal is just an extension to the Schoenfeld site and the old East German airfield has pretty good rail and motorway connections into the city. It may be frequented by Ryan and Easy but there are full service carriers present and of course Aeroflot maintains their historical ties

Hope you are being ironic because Ryanair ARE a very serious player in short haul period ! They are a magnitude larger than many/most of the legacies within Europe operate to an ever increasing number of major airport and many of those so called secondary city/towns actually have significant...

You would need to persuade someone like Ian Alan Travel or BAES to organise, charter and sell suitable flights subject aircraft being available and at competitive rates. Its possible however selling 400+ seats and the 380 charter rates might make it a bit prohibitive !

Those were for work up time for crew. What benefit would BA (IAG brand)gain by dropping in a 380 into Birmingham an airport they don't and likely won't return to anytime soon. EK have only used a three class once so far and that is the front upper desk economy zone. On three class that would...

Following Cypriot tradition here, Manchester via Brussels was opened with a Trident in advance of Heathrow and after the invasion on receipt of their own 707s Manchester was a lead destination. Only after they started chasing the rouble did CY go down hill and leave - We know how that panned out !

Vistara are a Delhi based carrier with fairly limited operations from Mumbai and smaller Indian carriers haven't really been too successful in the UK market to-date (queue Kingfisher and even Jet !) That said Vistara are just about the only carrier that's shown any interest in having a go at...

Down to Gatwick for the high season and off to Stockholm over the winter flying down to Thailand

Politically and my business absolutely relies on remaining so there you have It - Why do you think my own distribution network is in Kent and Manchester ! BTW with Badajoz and Turin and Lisbon being supply points

I am not so sure especially with that stupid disruptive vote next week. The economy has actually been weakening for some months already and i think we could see some scaling back of some of the potential short haul growth actually. Manufacturing the basis of the midlands economy is already in...

Not writing off long haul at all just stating economical realities which btw also apply to the other regional airport just as much. 4 flights a day using a320/738 is far more beneficial than a single 788 going to Timbuktu in every way and more so on those rather less glamorous sun resorts...

Might be a Manc as you put it but have lived rather further south than Birmingham (Oxford and North West London) for the last twenty years and like Users simply maintain a heathy interest in aviation in general .BTW retain business interests in Manchester and Kent and have to say would...

User just perhaps the Midland clientele would rather go elsewhere than the swamp and mousevitz - I know i would !

Why should it thats simply counter intuitive and contrary to market forces and this Manchester has taken a leap (implied recently) in its long haul growth is revisionist history. Its taken Manchester thirty years to reach the point of having around 25 long haul scheduled arrivals and departure...

Air India is NOT a good example they have been operating one and off out Birmingham since the 1980s and with good'ld 707s . They were a shoe in when they announced the latest return. BTW they did once serve Manchester briefly in the 90s several times a week with 310 via Rome . The regional...

Air India is NOT a good example they have been operating one and off out Birmingham since the 1980s and with good'ld 707s . They were a shoe in when they announced the latest return. BTW they did once serve Manchester briefly in the 90s serval times a week with 310 via Rome . The regional...

Logic would suggest Sichuan Airlines or their parent a company already known in Birmingham market China Southern i would say.

With Foreign office travel warnings unchanged these are almost certainly hajj flights