Manchester Airport Transformation Programme

[Trumpington]

All in all, I feel quite a decline in passenger experience. Very long walks, lack of seating in T2 and dreaded bussing over quite long distances. At least at the moment, you can walk to stands or be airbridged on. Really retrograde experience for at least Easyjet passengers. Is Pier C definitely not going to be physically linked to T2 Eastern pier? Has been alot of CGI images in the past suggesting it will? If Pier 3 is ever built, the impact of loss of legacy stands during construction will be significant. Would Pier C be able to keep current configuration after Pier 3 construction?

 

[marni1971]

. Would Pier C be able to keep current configuration after Pier 3 construction?

Once again, yes. 32 would close and the other 3 satellite gates would be downgraded but remain in use.

 

[LS@MAN]

Indeed. I’ve some friends who work the ramp who don’t paint a pretty picture of the state of pier one at ground level.

Doesn’t sound good! This probably coincides with the state of the walls featuring cracks in the corridor en route to pier 1!
Am I correcting in saying that where pier is located, this was a remote apron area? And where the corridor to pier 1 stands, was the end of T2 legacy?

All in all, I feel quite a decline in passenger experience. Very long walks, lack of seating in T2 and dreaded bussing over quite long distances. At least at the moment, you can walk to stands or be airbridged on. Really retrograde experience for at least Easyjet passengers. Is Pier C definitely not going to be physically linked to T2 Eastern pier? Has been alot of CGI images in the past suggesting it will? If Pier 3 is ever built, the impact of loss of legacy stands during construction will be significant. Would Pier C be able to keep current configuration after Pier 3 construction?

There is more seating now both in T1 & T2. As there will be next year in the improved T3.
Long walks, yes not so avoidable, but there should be more travellator’s!

I think the plan of physically linking pier C to T2 has gone out of the window!
Be interesting to see how this works, as the gate areas of pier C are getting refreshed.
And on the subject of pier C, stands 29 & 31 will be made to code C max capable later this year to enable to dual taxiway operation.

 

[marni1971]

Am I correcting in saying that where pier is located, this was a remote apron area? And where the corridor to pier 1 stands, was the end of T2 legacy?

Yes. Pier one straddles the edge of the orignal apron edge. The escalators from the shopping level to the pier one corridor is where the legacy pier ended.

 

[LS@MAN]

Yes. Pier one straddles the edge of the orignal apron edge. The escalators from the shopping level to the pier one corridor is where the legacy pier ended.

I know nothing about construction, but as heavy aircraft were parked on these apron areas for years on end and now we see cracks on buildings upon these areas, then the foundations are either crap and/or the ground is now failing?!

 

[Trumpington]

Once again, yes. 32 would close and the other 3 satellite gates would be downgraded but remain in use.

If all Easyjet remotes, surely all stands can be downgraded on Pier C and they could squeeze in some new ones as airbridges will be redundant and start rusting, rotting away!

Doesn’t sound good! This probably coincides with the state of the walls featuring cracks in the corridor en route to pier 1!
Am I correcting in saying that where pier is located, this was a remote apron area? And where the corridor to pier 1 stands, was the end of T2 legacy?



There is more seating now both in T1 & T2. As there will be next year in the improved T3.
Long walks, yes not so avoidable, but there should be more travellator’s!

I think the plan of physically linking pier C to T2 has gone out of the window!
Be interesting to see how this works, as the gate areas of pier C are getting refreshed.
And on the subject of pier C, stands 29 & 31 will be made to code C max capable later this year to enable to dual taxiway operation.

Bussing is awful though. Backward step for airport!

 

[LS@MAN]

If all Easyjet remotes, surely all stands can be downgraded on Pier C and they could squeeze in some new ones as airbridges will be redundant and start rusting, rotting away!


Bussing is awful though. Backward step for airport!

There will still be widebody capable stands on pier C which will be used by parked aircraft during the morning / afternoon, as happens now.
There simply isn’t enough adequate space for additional stands on pier C, even without airbridges. Some of the airbridge’s are rusting now so hopefully they will get a spruce up!

Bussing is inevitable and happens in T2 regularly now, MAN doesn’t have the advantage of a big area to not having a bussing operation in place.
If you’ve ever been to Frankfurt you will know even the major airports sometimes have such a facility too!

 

[mullion]

Was bussed in CDG and then had the longest taxi from one end to the other end of airfield

 

[Trumpington]

Was bussed in CDG and then had the longest taxi from one end to the other end of airfield

Bussing is a grim start and finishing to flying. Cheap and nasty!

 

[marni1971]

Bussing is inevitable and happens in T2 regularly now, MAN doesn’t have the advantage of a big area to not having a bussing operation in place.
If you’ve ever been to Frankfurt you will know even the major airports sometimes have such a facility too!

You’d assume at least one side of pier 3 would be high density contact gates; based on pier one they could get 7/8 on one side at least. It’s annoying pier 1 wasn’t built full length in the first place; we loose 3 airbridges served gates because of that (114 and 116 are served by busses in my experience) plus there’s the missing contact 202 due to the old temporary bus lounge still being squatted in by jet2.

Pier 3 and whatever pier 4 becomes could solve a lot of the bus problem. It’s not a good look for a brand new “state of the art” facility. Hopefully it is a stop gap (although to be fair we were bussed from one end of T5 to the other a few months ago at Heathrow as domestic arrivals - quite a surprise!)

 

[Trumpington]

Watching U tube Airlines Live shows, seems like all double airbridges are still intact on Pier C satalliate. Doesn't look they been downgraded yet? Maybe that's been mothballed too

 

[marni1971]

Watching U tube Airlines Live shows, seems like all double airbridges are still intact on Pier C satalliate. Doesn't look they been downgraded yet? Maybe that's been mothballed too

Incorrect. You can’t see everything on TV.

 

[LS@MAN]

Watching U tube Airlines Live shows, seems like all double airbridges are still intact on Pier C satalliate. Doesn't look they been downgraded yet? Maybe that's been mothballed too

Stands 29 & 31 had an airbridge removed and will become code C only later this year.
Stands 22/23/26/27/32 still have double airbridge’s.

 

[Trumpington]

Incorrect. You can’t see everything on TV.

Holy hell!!

 

[mullion]

Thought only two sets were being removed and they will be capped

 

[marni1971]

Thought only two sets were being removed and they will be capped

Yes, one bridge has been removed from both 29 and 31 as @LS@MAN said.

My photo was taken in March when it was still a work in progress hence no cap.

 

[Tho]

Do they plane to replace the jet bridges on stands 301-308 with ones with glass on them like the jet bridges on pier 1 and 2?

 

[LS@MAN]

Do they plane to replace the jet bridges on stands 301-308 with ones with glass on them like the jet bridges on pier 1 and 2?

I had wondered that myself to be honest, but given these stands will become unusable when pier 3 is eventually constructed, I don’t think there will be justification for such replacements.

 

[Trumpington]

Don't know they doing anything with airbridges all will be mothballed supposedly once Easy using as remotes for T2!?

I had wondered that myself to be honest, but given these stands will become unusable when pier 3 is eventually constructed, I don’t think there will be justification for such replacements.

Don't think Pier 3 will interfer with Pier C!

 

[marni1971]

Don't know they doing anything with airbridges all will be mothballed supposedly once Easy using as remotes for T2!?


Don't think Pier 3 will interfer with Pier C!

301-8 are the T2 Legacy gates