Etihad – MAN Start Date

But is there really room for this new Etihad service and the 2x daily Emirates on the route? :confused:

And you forget the daily Qatar service (as talked about so many times, many people on these services will not be flying to the middle east, they’re going further east or south. SO with Etihad there will be 4 flights per day serving the same purpose (albeit that Dubai itself is growing as a destination, which is putting pressure on the number of seats available for Emirates to hub out of MAN, hence the changes in aircraft), and the question should be is there enough demand for this?? The answer is most probably yes, more than enough.

These airlines are offering a level of service at a price which many competitors are struggling to match and therefore the service is likely to generate some destination switching, albeit that the switching is just on the initial service, and then passengers will connect onto the destinations they would always have flown to.

So who will this impact on? Well its going to provide a further competitor to KLM via AMS, AF via CDG and BA via LHR (there are A LOT of passengers flying to LHR from MAN to fly on don’t forget).

My source is very reliable indeed, and this seems to bear the story out.

There does seem to be some confusion about the actual date of the inaugural service, though.

Time will tell. 😀

Just wierd that you cannot book them on the Eithad website, must be a fault of somesort. Let’s just hope all these MAN spotters don’t line up ready for the inaugural arrival and it’ll be a big dissapointent!

Still there is alot of compatition on the general ‘Middle-East’ routes from MAN now, we’ll have to see how it turns out. Is one due for failure?