For those who’ve not read the Manchester Evening News Business Supplement, here”s MAN’s “official” rumour mill:
This year:
2 weekly to Jeddah via Geneva on Saudi Arabian Airlines
3 weekly to Nairobi via Paris on Kenya Airways
For 2008 onwards:
Four airlines unnamed airlines in China about services to Beijing or Shanghai
Four airlines negotiating for Mumbai, Delhi, Hyderabad and Chennai..
Having missed out on a Northwest Airlines service to Detroit last year, but the carrier is looking to expand in the UK and could revive its plans.
United Airlines is looking at the possibility of flights to Los Angeles or San Francisco.
And for current services:
Operators on transAtlantic routes want to increase capacity and frequency as are those flying to Bangladesh, Iran and Libya.
Talks taking place with:
Qantas, Air New Zealand, Japan Airlines, South African Airways and Sri Lankan Airlines
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Now some of the above are more believable than others. The one’s I’ve greatest faith in are the JED and NBO services, with DTW close behind. Of all the “talking ” going on these 3 are the ones to follow…QF is presumable tied in to when Jetstar gets 787s, NZ for a potential Auckland-Shanghai-MAN and UL has previously suggesting that a MAN link “would” happen only when they had a 2 daily LHR service.
By: David Kerr - 27th January 2007 at 19:52
I gather that the KQ service is now “off” as slots have been returnd by the airline. Howerver, I wonder if a weekly NBO service operated non-stop might be better than 3 weekly via CDG?
By: rdc1000 - 24th January 2007 at 22:31
Lets here all your destinations eh? :rolleyes:
Oh, and theres more chance of an airline starting flights to SXM than there is of Qantas coming back to MAN.
Apologies if it wasn’t you, but not that long ago we had the same debate on here, and the point was, quite accurately, made that SXM is not likely to be high on the list for a UK carier because it is culturally linked to France and the Netherlands, and hence, tourism is orientated towards those markets, just as Antigua, with cultural links to the UK, is dominated by British tourists.
In actual fact MAN is a client of my company and we have a reasonable idea of the types of routes they’re likely to attract.
Furthermore, while QF may not be a serious contender for MAN, I understand, from aviation press reports, it is high on their list for Jetstar in the future, which would be more suited as it is a lower yielding market, highly driven by leisure passengers.
By: David Kerr - 24th January 2007 at 20:27
When you say UA are looking at a MAN-LAX or SFO are they actively looking at it or is it wishful thinkn your behalf?
The UA comment is nothing to do with me – the whole article is here:
http://tinyurl.com/28qydu
What is noticable is the lack of a mention of a Thai service to BKK. Mind you, I think that rumour is exhausted and needs a year off to recover.
By: SHAMROCK321 - 24th January 2007 at 19:33
When you say UA are looking at a MAN-LAX or SFO are they actively looking at it or is it wishful thinkn your behalf?
Over the last few years pretty much since I got interested in aviation MAN people have been talking about new long haul routes most of wish havnt come about.
By: SHAMROCK321 - 24th January 2007 at 19:32
When you say UA are looking at a MAN-LAX or SFO are they actively looking at it or is it wishful thinkn your behalf?
Over the last few years pretty much since I got interested in aviation MAN people have been talking about new long haul routes most of wish havnt come about.
By: Oasis747 - 24th January 2007 at 19:10
Having flown UL near the end of last year, i must say MAN-CMB is a must. Nearly all the people that got on that plane were from up north.(And they acctually had to fly from MAN to LHR to get the flight to Sri Lanka. I dont think it is nessicery really for 3 daily flights to LHR when you can be more helpful to you passengers and fly a 2x daily CMB-LHR and put the other (free aircraft) on a CMB-MAN. i DID near the time i got back send an email to UL saying most of this and they said they would add it to there wish list.(Another airline to say the same thing after i hound them lol:p)
If that did not make any sense to you just say and i will try and rewrite my little speech as you were.:D
By: Flex 35 - 24th January 2007 at 18:20
A lot of posts go missing out of threads these days, strange that… 😉
Flex
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By: adamkendall - 24th January 2007 at 18:09
Didn’t Sam raise St Maarten once before? It ain’t gonna happen, how unrealistic do you want to be, move on.
I think St. Maarten would be very cool.
By: RingwaySam - 24th January 2007 at 13:13
Didn’t Sam raise St Maarten once before? It ain’t gonna happen, how unrealistic do you want to be, move on.
No I didn’t. Why is it so unrealistic? Antigua (I believe) is only 93nm away from St Maarten which is quiet ideal stop-off. I voiced my opinion, if I want to put SXM i’ll put SXM. Lets here all your destinations eh? :rolleyes:
Oh, and theres more chance of an airline starting flights to SXM than there is of Qantas coming back to MAN.
By: PMN - 24th January 2007 at 10:55
Didn’t Sam raise St Maarten once before? It ain’t gonna happen, how unrealistic do you want to be, move on.
I didn’t actually mean it like that. The thread title raises a question, to which Sam has given his reply. There seem to be far too many people on these forums with zero respect for the opinions of others. 😡
Paul
By: rdc1000 - 24th January 2007 at 10:51
Didn’t Sam raise St Maarten once before? It ain’t gonna happen, how unrealistic do you want to be, move on.
By: PMN - 24th January 2007 at 10:21
I thought you might mention St. Maarten, Sam! :rolleyes:
Paul
By: T5 - 24th January 2007 at 01:30
St Maarten… Could work for BMI if they whent via Antigua!
I’m sure there are heaps of other destinations bmi would consider before Saint Martin.
By: RingwaySam - 24th January 2007 at 00:45
Sounds intresting:-
A few realistic routes I want…
Nairobi… Kenyan
Los Angeles… United
Shanghai… Any Chinese airlines
Mumbai… Air India
St Maarten… Could work for BMI if they whent via Antigua!
Cape Town… And not on a low-co :rolleyes:
Also, about the Iran routes – I’d like Mahan to drop there routes and Iran Air take over.
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