David, everything you have said reflects business decisions made by BA regarding how it operates from MAN whilst trying to make the operation profitable as Wozza quite rightly points out. Your points about the LH operation are spot on, and mirror the way BA bring people from German regional airports to transfer at LHR when they can’t fly direct.

I said at the start I didn’t want to be drawn into the BA MAN thing all over again, yet somehow I have been.

Lance, I presume your comment is aimed at me. I have tried to state facts without emotion rather than opinion in this thread. My ‘personalising’ was in objecting to the tone and style of a statement which I felt was rather attacking. I make no apologies for that.

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I saw ZAPX at LGW today. Looks great, much better than in that photograph.

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You really are making personal what are ultimately business decisions. I don’t want to get into the “London Airways doesn’t like MAN any more” debate that we have every few months, however…

That was the hope anyway

Terminals are not built in ‘the hope’.

BA should not allowed to call it its “own” terminal

BA doesn’t. If you are referring to the fact that it used to be called T1BA that was the airports doing and was dropped long ago at BA’s request as it implied that the terminal itself was the responsibility of the airline.

bmi and baby have move over, to fill it up

Moving airlines between terminals to even up capacity is quite normal, and to ‘chuck BA out’ would leave T3 under capacity and T1 over capacity again.

I can recall my flights in the 735’s with C class fully booked

As we often discuss on here full doesn’t automatically mean profitable. How many on your flights were upgrades?

I think they should remove the BA logo

Airline logos appear all over airport buildings as information or advertising. In this case BA are advertising that T3 is the terminal they operate from. I’m sure if the other airlines at T3 paid to rent the wall space as BA do, they could have their logo added.

its not a BA nor One World exclusive terminal by now

I don’t think it ever was. BA certainly never claimed more than T3 being the home of all BA flights.

i don’t see the “suspended” GeeBee routes returning

Perhaps not. But if they don’t you can be certain it’s because they didn’t perform well enough this year.

I will concede that in recent years there have been many changes for BA at MAN (as there have been throughout the airline), but they still operate an average of 50 flights a day from MAN, not including those operated by GB. That’s not a small operation by anyones standards.

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The aircraft that took them had the Pride of the Nation written on the side not Three Lions……… but it was definitely a G-EUU

If you look here, http://www.airliners.net/open.file?id=0961745&WxsIERv=Nveohf%20N320-232&Wm=0&WdsYXMg=Oevgvfu%20Nvejnlf&QtODMg=Nzfgreqnz%20-%20Fpuvcuby%20%28NZF%20%2F%20RUNZ%29&ERDLTkt=Argureynaqf&ktODMp=Nhthfg%2016%2C%202005&BP=0&WNEb25u=Treel%20Fgrtzrvre&xsIERvdWdsY=T-RHHV&MgTUQtODMgKE=&YXMgTUQtODMgKERD=364&NEb25uZWxs=2005-11-18%2017%3A23%3A15&ODJ9dvCE=&O89Dcjdg=1871&static=yes&width=1405&height=949&sok=JURER%20%20%28ZNGPU%20%28nvepensg%2Cnveyvar%2Ccynpr%2Ccubgb_qngr%2Cpbhagel%2Cerznex%2Ccubgbtencure%2Crznvy%2Clrne%2Cert%2Cnvepensg_trarevp%2Cpa%2Cpbqr%29%20NTNVAFG%20%28%27%2B%22t-rhhv%22%27%20VA%20OBBYRNA%20ZBQR%29%29%20%20BEQRE%20OL%20cubgb_vq%20QRFP&photo_nr=3&prev_id=0965613&next_id=0947182&size=L you can see the name has worn off where the jetty contacts the aircraft. It would definately be reapplied before a high publicity flight, so they probably took that opportunity to use a different name.

As for 777’s, they probably use whatever aircraft they need for the number of people they need to transport rather than choosing a type they like.

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Is the Jet2 757 based at MAN yet?

Yes it is. I was talking to FlyMonarch about his first flight on it a couple of days ago.

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