Manchester Airport - General Thread

[Aviador]

Manchester Airport shows off brand new American fire engines with jet blaze demo

manchestereveningnews.co.uk

"The Oshkosh Global Striker Vehicles were unveiled as part of a £4.2m total investment in the airport fire operation."

That's a sizeable investment in new equipment. It's a shame the airport couldn't have bought British Angloco Airport fire engines though.

 

[Ray Finkle]

Whilst I'm definitely all for buying British the Oshkosh Striker vehicle really is awesome. BHX acquired some back in June (being the first UK airport to do so) and when you see them in action they really are an awesome bit of kit.

Although the guy is a bit stiff it's a good walkaround of the vehicle and worth a watch.

[video]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-A79yudHo0[/video]

 

[andyc941]

I had a drive up to MAN this morning for the Air Cairo and heard rumours that Kuwait Airways are looking to open new routes to Munich, Copenhagen and Manchester with A330 aircraft.Then this afternoon it was also posted on another site the same rumour but dont know how true this rumour is tho :smile:

 

[User0001]

Just a typical day at Manchester.

2xAmerican B767's, Cathay B77W, Singapore B77W, Thomson B787, British Airways A320, United B757 and more.

Forwarded to me email so credit to whoever in ATC took that shot.

 

[michael]

Happy New Year everyone, not strictly related to on the ground at Manchester but more overhead, at 9.45am this morning FR24 showed 2 x Emirates A380's overhead both heading to Dubai plus a United 772 again heading to Dubai. Both Emirates were due to land approx 7.20pm local but the United was not due to land until 8.18pm local. This brought 3 questions to mind, firstly how accurate is FR24 with regards to timings, secondly, is it possible that an A380 could be an hour quicker than a 772 over that distance or, thirdly, is it that Emirates have priority over United with regards to routings and landing at Dubai?

 

[User0001]

MAN in 2014 officially broke through the 22m passenger bracket, carrying 22,055,258 passengers.

With so many increases planned for Summer 2015, let alone anything planned winter 2015, I'm hopeful MAN can get to between 22,750,000 and 23,000,000 this year.

 

[lbaspotter]

Can't find the bmi regional thread for Manchester so here goes.

It was confirmed yesterday that bmi regional are axing the Manchester - Aberdeen route as from Friday March 27th 2015.

 

[User0001]

Inspired by Ray on the BHX threads, I thought I would post a typical long haul and non-European arrival roster for MAN in August.

0450 TOM545 Punta Cana B787 Fri
0550 TOM156 Sanford B787 Tue, Sat, Sun
0555 TOM256 Montego Bay B787 Wed, Thu, Sun
0605 TOM356 Puerto Plata B787 Sun
0610 QR21 Doha A333 Wed, Fri, Sun
0610 TCX253 Montego Bay A332 Mon, Wed, Thu
0615 UA100 Washington B757 Daily
0620 CX357 Hong Kong B77W Mon, Tue, Thu, Sat
0630 TS208 Toronto A332 Daily
0640 TOM156 Cancun B787 Mon-Fri, Sun
0655 AA54 Chicago B767 Daily
0700 VS109 Atlanta A333 Daily
0705 EY15 Abu Dhabi B77W Daily
0720 TCX136 Cancun A332 Daily
0720 VS76 Orlando B744 Daily
0725 TCX125 Orlando A332 Daily
0725 SQ328 Singapore B77W Daily
0725 AA210 New York JFK B767 Daily
0740 EK21 Dubai B77W Daily
0740 PC1547 Dalaman B737 Mon, Fri
0740 UA80 Newark B757 Daily
0755 TCX852 Las Vegas A332 Mon, Tue, Wed, Fri
0815 SV123 Jeddah B777 Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun
0835 FHY628 Dalaman A320 Monday
0840 VS78 Barbados B744 Mon
0850 US734 Philidelphia A332 Daily
0855 TOM359 Puerto Vallerta B787 Sat
0925 TCX849 New York JFK A332 Mon, Thu, Sat
0930 VS74 Orlando B744 Tue-Sun
0955 DL234 New York JFK B757 Daily
1000 TS214 Calgary A332 Tue, Sun
1000 TS284 Vancouver A332 Wed, Sat
1005 TK1993 Istanbul A321 Daily
1010 B2853 Minsk B737 Sat
1015 AC1930 Toronto B767 Tue-Sun
1120 CAI723 Antalya B737 Sun
1030 NT3256 Enfidha A321 Monday
1040 PK723 Karachi B77L Thu, Sat
1105 VS86 Las Vegas A346 Tue, Thu, Sun
1155 EK17 Dubai A380 Daily
1225 QR23 Doha A332 Daily
1230 MS784 Cairo B737 Daily
1505 TK1995 Istanbul A321 Daily
1515 EY21 Abu Dhabi B77W Daily
1645 PK709 Lahore B77W Wed, Fri
1835 QR25 Doha A333 Mon, Tue, Thu, Sat
1855 EK19 Dubai A380 Daily
1910 PK701 Islamabad B77W Mon, Tue, Thu, Sat, Sun
2240 TK1490 Istanbul B737 Daily

Not a bad roster, and a nice variety of aircraft types/destinations included.

 

[Manniashraf]

Well better than other airports in the uk outside of London!
Great user 001, lots of respect :whiteflag:

 

[Aviador]

Yes very impressive and as you say Manniashraf considerably better than every other airport outside of London and something most regional airport can only ever dream of.

Long haul services from Manchester airport suffered badly during the economic crisis, how does that list compare with the lowest point a couple of years or so ago?

 

[User0001]

Also forgot

2000 IA218 Sulamanyiah B737 Wed
2000 IA228 Erbil B737 Sun.

 

[Aviador]

Manchester Airport hopes to pass 30m mark by 2025

Manchester Airports Group boss Charlie Cornish says he hopes 30 millions people will jet in and out of the region within 10 years.

The airport this year reached its pre-recession milestone of 22m passengers and is aiming to hit the 23.5m mark next year.

And he said: "In three years, Manchester Airport will be vastly different to what it is today and in three years, it will be hugely different."

Read more: http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/ ... 0m-8786225

 

[Manniashraf]

Anyone know why the Emirates uae17 just declared a emergency signal? Over birmingham coming originally to manchester?

 

[andyc941]

A man had a cardiac arest according to Facebook.Hope he is ok

 

[Aviador]

Inaugural Virgin Atlantic flight to Atlanta cancelled after 'water cannon salute' is swapped for foam and clogs engines

What a ***Please Read Forum Terms of Service***-up on behalf of Manchester airport fire service. I imagine heads are rolling as we speak. :s_crazy

 

[User0001]

While it didn't go into details, Emirates has said Manchester is its 2nd highest O&D market in the world after London. It beat places such as New York, Manilla and Paris.

Not a bad accolade to have, and shows MAN-DXB really isn't just about accessing the DXB hub.

In terms of Etihad, Manchester is apparently 3rd behind London and Manama for pure O&D traffic too.

Who would have thought it!

 

[andyc941]

Many other forums are Reporting that US department of homeland security have announced MAN (and LHR as well as some other EU airports) are to get pre clearance facilities.Great news for futre of Manchester

 

[Aviador]

That is great news for US and UK based operators wanting to operate direct flights to the States and it's been a long time in coming.

It's something that will likely stunt the growth of airlines like Aer Arran AKA Air Stobart from other regional airports with the pre clearance option at airports like Manchester and London Heathrow being favoured over flights via Dublin.

 

[andyc941]

I know some airlines dont switch their aircraft around much, Iraqi are the worst for sending the same aircraft on every flight even if its a different destination.But out of intrest Turkish have sent A321 TC-JSP on every TK1993 morning flight since 30th May when it first visited.

 

[jfy1999]

Well we can boast an even more annoying lack of variety down at BHX...VLM have used F50 OO-VLJ on every one of their 4 weekly flights since they started on April 27!