This thread seems to have been a little quiet of recent and so I thought that I would post what little I have come across for this Summer:
Ryanair - are withdrawing totally from Billund. This is due to a fallout with Billund Airport over taxes. This route has been served for many years - having initially been a service operated by Sun-Air Scandinaviaon behalf of (if I remember correctly) Astra Zeneca. Back in October 2000 the monthly passenger count was 1,962. October 2024 has 4,448.
Ethiopian - RingwayReports suggests that from 3rd July Ethiopian will reduce their service via Geneva to just twice a week (on Wednesday & Sunday). However they will add a flight via Marseille on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. This will be a nett gain of 1 flight per week.
Pakistan - Potential start of direct services by Air Blue, Indigo/Norse and PIA, will be delayed until at least June 2025 due to awaiting the results of the CAA report which is due in 1-2 months. Information courtesy of Sean M on Twitter.
Biman Bangladesh - in recent schedule update revised planned service to Manchester during Northern summer 2025 season. From 28APR25 to 12JUL25, the airline is suspending the two weekly Dhaka – Sylhet – Manchester service. Information courtesy of AeroRoutes
Singapore Airlines - it is general knowledge that we lose the connecting through flight to Houston, however does mean that there will be additional seats available for sales SIN-MAN-SIN as there is no need for a percentage to be held for SIN-IAH passengers.
Information from a well informed friend provides the following -
EasyJet is looking like one extra based, this being a third A21N. Healthy and welcome growth, though probably sub-10% in terms of extra seats. Jet2 is pretty mature at MAN; I’d be quite surprised to see a double-digit percentage increase from them.
Virgin and Aer Lingus UK are looking pretty much like-for-like with S24.
Corendon and Luxair appear to be trimming frequencies.
Several carriers are strengthening their programmes:
Cathay - Remains daily
Etihad - Summer 24 was daily, Summer 25 is showing as 12 per week.
Gulf Air - Summer 24 was 5 per week and appears to remain so.
Hainan - Remain daily
Juneyao, Summer 24 was 3 per week. Summer 25 is showing an increase to 6 per week.
Kuwait Airways - Appears to stay at 3 per week but with an upgrade to A339
Qatar - Continue at 3 daily.
Royal Jordanian - Summer 24 was 3 per week. Summer 25 is showing 5 per week.
Saudia - Appears to stay at 6 per week to Jeddah.
General overview:
According to Matt995 on Pprune, TUI will not bring in any short-haul ACMI at MAN this year. We had 3 x B38M from Smartlynx in S24 July through September. The core fleet is listed as 16 units (including the TUI Nordic B789); I counted 17 last Summer, though one may have been serving as a spare. There is talk of an extra B787 finding it’s way to MAN, though uncertainty over where this is coming from (and whether it is already factored in to the quoted 16 if another type has reduced presence). Ryanair have trimmed planned new services - almost certainly due to late deliveries from Boeing, which will resolve eventually - though MOL never passes up the opportunity to blame tax rises.
Hopefully more information will become available other the next few weeks.
