Manchester Airport Nostalgia

[mullion]

I don`t think it ever happened as we came into the recession but I will have a dig in my old magazines

 

[David_itl]

The CAA stats for 2008 report 100,488 passengers on MAN-HEL which was up 32% on 2007's total of 75,904

 

[davemh72]

Just found a few old scans , apologies for their poor condition after 20 odd years. oh and i'm an awful photographerView attachment 8626 View attachment 8627 View attachment 8628

 

[Scottie Dog]

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> World Routes 25: 2006 Host Dubai Network in Nov 1995

World Routes 25: 2006 Host Dubai Network in Nov 1995 Posted 8 September 2019 07:30 Today is Day 14 of the countdown to the 25th edition of World Routes, scheduled in Adelaide from September 21 to 24, 2019. For 25 consecutive days, Airlineroute's countdown features the general flight network in November 1995. Day 14 features Dubai, World Routes Host in 2006. Information is taken from OAG Worldwide Edition, November 1995, as well as OAG schedules database. Actual operation may differ from the published schedule. Dubai – Manchester Emirates: 2 weekly A300 Dubai – Zurich – Manchester Emirates: 3 weekly A300/310

 

[Scottie Dog]

Courtesy of Airlineroute

World Routes 25: Routes HQ Manchester Network in Nov 1995 Posted 18 September 2019 10:30 Today is Day 24 of the countdown to the 25th edition of World Routes, scheduled in Adelaide from September 21 to 24, 2019. For 25 consecutive days, Airlineroute's countdown features the general flight network in November 1995. In the past 25 years, Abu Dhabi hosted World Routes twice, 1996 and 2012. As Abu Dhabi's network from November 1995 has been covered in the last few weeks, Day 24 features Manchester, the Routes Headquarter. Information is taken from OAG Worldwide Edition, November 1995, as well as OAG schedules database. Actual operation may differ from the published schedule. Note multi-stop service on domestic routes, 1/2-stop(s) international service via domestic point (excluding foreign carriers), is excluded in this feature. Operational frequency and aircraft varies on weekends. Manchester – Aberdeen British Airways: 4 daily ATP Business Air: 2 daily Saab 340 (weekdays) Manchester – Amsterdam Air UK: 4 daily Fokker 100 British Airways: 4 daily 737 Suckling Airways: 2 daily Dornier 228 Manchester – Amsterdam – Hong Kong Cathay Pacific: 4 weekly 747-400 Manchester – Atlanta Delta: 1 daily L1011-500 Manchester – Barcelona Iberia: 1 daily MD87 Manchester – Basel Crossair: 2 daily Saab 2000 Manchester – Belfast City British Airways: 5 daily ATP (Manx Airlines) Manchester – Belfast International British Airways: 30 weekly ATP Business Air: 4 daily Saab 340 (weekdays) Manchester – Billund – Birmingham – Manchester Newair: 6 weekly Jetstream J31 Manchester – Birmingham – Billund – Manchester Newair: 5 weekly Jetstream J31 Manchester – Bombay – Singapore Singapore Airlines: 2 weekly 747-400 Manchester – Brussels British Airways: 2 daily 737 Sabena: 4 daily 737 Manchester – Brussels – Rome British Airways: 1 daily 737 Manchester – Bucharest Tarom: 2 weekly Tupolev Tu154/BAC1-11 Manchester – Cambridge Suckling Airways: 2 daily Dornier 228 (weekdays) Manchester – Chicago O’Hare American: 1 daily 767-300ER Manchester – Connaught British Airways: 3 weekly ATP (Manx Airlines) Manchester – Copenhagen Aer Lingus: 1 daily 737/737-500 (Full routing: Dublin – Manchester – Copenhagen) SAS: 3 daily DC9/MD87 Manchester – Cork Aer Lingus: 2 weekly Fokker 50 British Airways: 2 daily Jetstream J41 (Manx Airlines) Manchester – Dubai Emirates: 2 weekly A300 Manchester – Dublin Aer Lingus: 4-5 daily 737/737-500/Fokker 50 Ryanair: 4 daily 737 Manchester – Dusseldorf British Airways: 3 daily 737 Lufthansa: 2 daily 737 Manchester – Edinburgh British Airways: 5 daily ATP Business Air: 3 daily Saab 340 (weekdays) Manchester – Frankfurt British Airways: 2 daily 737 Lufthansa: 2 daily 737 Manchester – Geneva British Airways: 1 daily 737 Manchester – Gibraltar British Airways: 2 weekly 737 (GB Airways) Manchester – Glasgow British Airways: 6 daily ATP Business Air: 3 daily Saab 340 (weekdays) Manchester – Glasgow – Toronto Air Canada: 5 weekly 767 Manchester – Guernsey British Airways: 1 daily Jetstream J41 (Manx Airlines) Jersey European: 1 daily Fokker 27 Manchester – Hamburg Lufthansa: 6 weekly CRJ Manchester – Hannover British Airways: 1 daily ATP Manchester – Islamabad British Airways: 2 weekly 747 Manchester – Islamabad – Amsterdam – Manchester Pakistan International: 1 weekly 747 Manchester – Islamabad – Moscow Shremetyevo – Manchester Pakistan International: 1 weekly 747 Manchester – Isle of Man Manx Airlines: 15 weekly ATP/Jetstream J41 Manchester – Jersey British Airways: 1 daily ATP Manchester – Larnaca Air 2000: 1 weekly A320 Cyprus Airways: 1 weekly A310 Manchester – Londonderry British Airways: 1 daily Shorts 360 (Loganair) Manchester – London Gatwick Air 2000: 1 weekly 757 (Full Routing: London Gatwick – Manchester – Paphos) British Airways: 6 daily 737 Manchester – London Heathrow British Airways: 69 weekly 737/757/767 Manchester – London Stansted British Airways: 3 daily Jetstream J41 (Manx Airlines) Manchester – Luxembourg Luxair: 5 weekly Fokker 50 Manchester – Lyon Air Littoral: 9 weekly EMB120 Manchester – Madrid British Airways: 6 weekly 737 Manchester – Malta Air Malta: 2 weekly 737/737-300 Manchester – Milan Linate British Airways: 2 daily 737 Manchester – Milan Malpensa Lauda Air: 6 weekly CRJ Manchester – Moscow Sheremetyevo Aeroflot: 2 weekly Tupolev Tu154 Manchester – Munich British Airways: 1 daily 737 Lufthansa: 2 daily CRJ Manchester – Newcastle Gill Airways: 3 daily Shorts 360 Manchester – Newark Continental: 1 daily 757 Manchester – New York JFK British Airways: 1 daily 767 Manchester – Norwich Interline Aviation: 2 daily Jetstream J31 (weekdays) Manchester – Oslo Fornebu – Stockholm Arlanda SAS: 6 weekly DC9 Manchester – Paphos Air 2000: 2 weekly 757 (Including 1 weekly London Gatwick – Manchester – Paphos) Manchester – Paphos – Larnaca Cyprus Airways:1 weekly A310 Manchester – Paris CDG Air France: 4 daily 737 British Airways: 5 daily 737 Manchester – Paris CDG – Abu Dhabi Gulf Air: 2 weekly 767 Manchester – Paris CDG – Hong Kong Cathay Pacific: 3 weekly 747-400 Manchester – Paris CDG – Singapore Singapore Airlines: 1 weekly 747-400 Manchester – Prague CSA: 2 weekly 737-500 Manchester – Rotterdam British Airways: 6 weekly Jetstream J41 (Manx Airlines) Manchester – Rotterdam – Eindhoven BASE Regional Airlines: 2 daily Jetstream J31 (weekdays) Manchester – Shannon British Airways: 6 weekly Jetstream J41 (Manx Airlines) Manchester – Southampton British Airways: 2 daily ATP (Manx Airlines) Manchester – Stockholm Arlanda – Helsinki Finnair: 1 daily MD80 Manchester – Tashkent Uzbekistan Airways: 2 weekly Ilyushin Il62 Manchester – Tel Aviv El Al: 2 weekly 757 Manchester – Vienna Lauda Air: 6 weekly CRJ Manchester – Zurich AerLingus: 6 weekly 737-500 Swissair: 1 daily MD80 Manchester – Zurich – Dubai Emirates: 3 weekly A300/310

 

[David_itl]

The difference a couple of decades makes and losing a based airline that seemed to have the potential to do what Virgin/Flybe look like doing now but decided that the better way was route everything over LHR. Would be good if BA were to acknowledge the disservice they did to the regions during the course of the 100 year celebrations! But then we wouldn't have the diverse operations we have now.

 

[Seasider]

With talk on the transformation thread that Pier B "will be here for ever", here is a photo taken on top of the Pier in 1983.

 

[Seasider]

I didn't realise when I decide to post on this thread, that I was the last one to do so - 6 months ago.
Come on MAN fans, reminisce with us even if it is only to appease an "oldie" like myself. (first visit to MAN 1965)

Not as far back as that but one from a scheduled airline in 1980

 

[Scottie Dog]

Thank you Seasider. Unfortunately j don't have any old photos to share although, having said that I've just remembered some prints in an album that I'll try to dig out!!

 

[Scottie Dog]

Okay Seasider here we go. All taken in 2000 when I had the pleasure of flying on the Aer Lingus DH-84 Dragon. Also of interest are the photos, as we were on base leg for 24 - I don't think it had changed to 23 at that time and neither had the L/R designation been applied - of the new runway under construction.
Unfortunately I've lost my photo of the Lufthansa Junkers JU-87 that I also had the joy of flying on from Manchester to Heathrow - Special VFR via Congleton/Litchfield and Bovingdon for a visual approach onto 28R.

 

[rollo]

Okay Seasider here we go.

Lovely photos Scottie, must be great memories, my first ever flight was on a Dragon Rapide from Elmdon around 1960 when you could take a pleasure flight at weekends so long as your parents paid.

 

[Jamman]

Shirley Baker - Exhibition Selection

Work in progress - selection of final images for exhibition

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Some nice MAN airport internal shots from the 1980's

 

[Scottie Dog]

Thanks Jamman for sharing that link. How thinks have changed, but it brings memories flooding back.

 

[Jamman]

Shirley Baker - Airport '87

Manchester Airport captured by Shirley Baker for a one-day commission for the Documentary Photography Archive (DPA). The purpose of the commission was to increase the number of new accessions into the contemporary collections of the DPA.

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The whole 200+ photos from 1987

Strikes me T1 went through a big transformation that year, a lot of the old fittings and fixtures were removed and building work going on.
This was certainly the time I would have been the 7 year old kid with his nose pressed up to the glass in the cafe area looking at Dan Air's lining the peir

This caught my eye... paging the health and safety department!

https://flic.kr/p/Uq6nEV

 

[David_itl]

17th August would be an appropriate day for a bit of nostalgia, golden anniversary of an event and all that malarkey.

 

[LS@MAN]

Great photo's. In 1987 I was only 4 but I do remember T1 from around 1991 onwards and these photo's take me back to going on my annual summer holidays with my parents to either mainland Spain (Malaga) or somewhere in Majorca. Usually Flying Monarch and always boarding from Pier C.

I remember that black flooring in arrivals, can't remember where it was in departures though, apart from at check in? Looks awful looking back now!
I see can why T2 was needed, it looks very crowded and of course it was August but I imagine a new terminal was a welcome relief when it opened in 1993.

 

[Jamman]

Great photo's. In 1987 I was only 4 but I do remember T1 from around 1991 onwards and these photo's take me back to going on my annual summer holidays with my parents to either mainland Spain (Malaga) or somewhere in Majorca. Usually Flying Monarch and always boarding from Pier C.

I remember that black flooring in arrivals, can't remember where it was in departures though, apart from at check in? Looks awful looking back now!
I see can why T2 was needed, it looks very crowded and of course it was August but I imagine a new terminal was a welcome relief when it opened in 1993.

The black flooring and the noise it made when you pushed the trolley over it, I think originally the black flooring all over but then it was removed as bits were refurbished.
I remember security being next to WH Smith just under the big departures board, it was a short run from departures landside to airside, something like three lanes of someone checking your boarding pass and some bag scanners? My memory of departures airside is fuzzy, I remember a big duty free and sitting area but thats mostly it. I think most shopping was done landside.

 

[Dirky dirk]

Those old pics are great
I spent many an evening cycling down the car park escalator after waiting for the air france and swissair to come in

And sitting in the cafe in t1 departures, spottingon level 11 because it was hammering down

 

[Scottie Dog]

Ah so it was you that i had to keep dodging on those old travellators!!

 

[Dirky dirk]

Yes it was me
While im confessing,
We used to go down inthelift from the car park, into t1 arrivals with our bikes as well
And at the bottom the lifts would open and theyd be dozens and dozens of angry people stood therewitb the cases and small children we would have to wade through as well lol