The Manx Airlines name and Livery is to disappear thanks to the BA subsidiary CitiExpress. They are also pulling off IOM-LHR and IOM-CI routes ! The LHR service is tobe replaced with LGW and the IOM-BHX route will go to a J41, other routes are expected tobe scalled down. Terry Liddiard the former long standing Chairman of Manx resigned when BA took over Manx. It seems to me BA’s main interest is to get the LHR slots as have been done to so many regional services to LHR around the UK. BD has also done this and Air UK gave up GCI-LHR.
BA is obviously not interested in UK transfer traffic, unlike airports such as Amsterdam. I feel sorry for people on the IOM who want to travel Long-Haul as it will now become a much more tedious task. If there was an IOM-AMS service the islanders could avoid LHR and all its conjestion.
I wonder if the day might come when the powers that be at LHR start moaning that British people outside the Southeast are not supporting the counrties main gateway ????? Maybe when passenger figures at CDG or FRA pass LHR, it will serve them right !
By: zoot horn rollo - 12th September 2008 at 14:25
Ah yes, quick response by IATA in reallocating the JE code but not so quick response by fare search engine in not picking changes up.
We used to have endless fun in IATA trying to carry out longer term historical analysis on traffic by city pairs and finding the oddities in our database like a variety of carriers with the same code. It was never a problem for the people reallocating the codes just the poor analysts trying to crunch numbers years later.
By: Easty - 12th September 2008 at 11:32
Hi guys
Posted the same question on a South African aviation forum http://avcom.co.za/
Low cost carrier, Mango are using the old Manx AL flight code JE. Flightcompare has for some unknown reason put 2 and 2 together and called it Manx AL instead of Mango.
There you have it.
Easty
Newforest, I do work by the way, so unable to reply..Thanks
By: Newforest - 11th September 2008 at 16:12
No ‘Manx Airlines’ flights operate from ‘Jan Smuts’ now O.R. Tambo Int. or Lanseria, maybe Farecompare has been hacked?:confused:
The poster can’t be that interested in any reply as he has not returned to visit.
By: cloud_9 - 11th September 2008 at 13:13
Where are you getting the information from that “Manx Airlines” are flying in South Africa?
Well, I was rather intrigued by this myself, so I did a quick google search, and the first result shows that there does appear to be an airline that operates in South Africa using the Manx Airlines name, however, I am not sure its legitimate…
http://www.farecompare.com/flights/Manx_Airlines-JE/airline.html
Firstly it says it offers ‘cheap non-stop airline tickets from Jan Smuts – JNB’…well, ‘Jan Smuts’ was the name of the international airport between 1952 to 1994.
Also, it says it serves Jan Smuts (JNB) to Blackbushe (BBS)…:eek:
I certainly would like to see what market research proved this to be a viable route and with what a/c if it is a non-stop flight!…:p:D
The thing that particularily stood out to me was this:
Did You Know?
Manx Airlines flies over 21,018 seats worldwide per week.
The shortest flight on Manx Airlines is 312 miles from Johannesburg to Durban.
Manx Airlines has 113 flights each week from South Africa.
Manx Airlines has 31 flights each week from Durban, South Africa.
I think someone is having a joke!:D
It does just make me wonder if anyone actually uses this site to try and book anything…:rolleyes:
By: Newforest - 10th September 2008 at 22:49
Maybe he was confusing it with Manx2
Their latest aircraft are Do.228, so how long would that take to/from South Africa?:diablo:
The poster is an infrequent visitor but does have contacts in the I.O.M.:confused:
By: B77W - 10th September 2008 at 20:57
Exactly, Manx Airlines in the U.K. does not exist!:p
Maybe he was confusing it with Manx2
By: Newforest - 10th September 2008 at 19:50
Exactly, Manx Airlines in the U.K. does not exist!:p
By: Mark L - 10th September 2008 at 18:41
What do you mean? Where are you getting the information from that “Manx Airlines” are flying in South Africa?
By: wysiwyg - 29th November 2002 at 22:59
RE: Manx Airlines
Yes, I lived in Guernsey in 1999 & 2000.
By: Saab 2000 - 29th November 2002 at 16:17
RE: Manx Airlines
Gotland was 1999?
By: wysiwyg - 28th November 2002 at 23:10
RE: Manx Airlines
I was GCI based when the Gotland games were going on.
By: mongu - 28th November 2002 at 19:10
RE: Manx Airlines
I was surprised that the Falklands team arrived in a F50 also!
Presumably they connected through somewhere else 🙂
By: Saab 2000 - 28th November 2002 at 19:00
RE: Manx Airlines
I think the GCI team sent up a couple of VLM fokker 50s for the games.Next year it is our turn at holding the games so i’m looking forward to seeing a few different aircraft.
By: mongu - 28th November 2002 at 18:20
RE: Manx Airlines
We get the odd charter here and there. During the 2001 Island Games (Saab will know what I’m on about) Finnair sent about 4 different MD-88s to the IOM, rotating them quite often. Otherwise it is just the usual 737 or A320 stuff.
We frequently get Nimrods here too, which are captivating to watch.
IOM is a maintaince base for the old BRAL, so we’d get lots of ATPs, J41s and ERJ’s visitng.
By: KabirT - 28th November 2002 at 16:28
RE: Manx Airlines
Love the Air Malta shot.
By: Saab 2000 - 28th November 2002 at 16:21
RE: Manx Airlines
Interesting shots.Does the IOM get many charters in from Europe?
By: mongu - 27th November 2002 at 23:31
RE: Manx Airlines
Sadly they aren’t my shots, they’re plagiarised from a local website.
By: A330Crazy - 27th November 2002 at 23:23
RE: Manx Airlines
[updated:LAST EDITED ON 27-11-02 AT 11:23Â PM (GMT)]Some nice shots there Mongu, especially the Air Malta shot with the church/cathedral type building in the back ground, very nice.
Did you take them? If so well done, great pics! 🙂 Cheers!
By: mongu - 16th March 2002 at 11:21
RE: Manx Airlines
Thanks for the input.
Do you have any idea of the second hand price of a F50 or a J41?
I’m trying to get a handle on the viability of such a service.
By: EGNM - 16th March 2002 at 10:00
RE: Manx Airlines
For a starters maybee something like a Fokker 50 – LKM UK have used this quite well, but if after a few weeks of unsuccesful services the a/c could be downgraded to say a J41, o upgraded to something like a Fokker 70/100
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