Mustn’t forget the AV8Air saga thay they had…

Oh rights thanks for info just seen pics off them on airliners.net

James

Hopefully from when they had a Tu154 based at MAN for a summer season (in the ealry 1990s) when Globe Mediterrean operated for about a nanosecond before ceasing operations, causing tour operators to seek an “urgent” replacement.

There is still untapped capacity at LHR for passenger ATMs at LHR, once the bizjets, delivery flights, cargo flights, royal/VIP flights etc are removed elsewhere.

I would imagine that the “untapped” capacity that you are talking about are spare slots which have no current use, and are not available at the same time each day which is what I imagine any airline would want so that they could use it to it’s maximum commerical advantage.

Still, it’s only London, so Labour will do all they can to make it an unfit place to live, as most of their voters are up north.

Some of us “up North” are fed up with all the excess spending being spent on London to the detriment of “up North”.

There was also an “early doors” diveriosn to MAN – QF001 from Heathrow.

Todays MAN-EWR flight CO21 1 of 2 daily flights diverted to DUB with some sort of tech problem.

And it’s now diverted to Gander after departing DUB! Is the pilot trying to re-enact some vintage MAN-New York services (e.g. Sabena operated BRU-SNN-YQX-New York)?

Well it is proberly down as the A/C diversion feild incase of incedents like this.

Although we’re probably down as the alternate, it’s also because MAN is sort along the way on it’s HKG-LHR sector, so it was presumably advised of holding times, factored in how much fuel it would use, discovered he didn’t have enough to go into a hold and have a spare 30 mins for holding at an alternate but come to MAN directly without too much fuss. The only point of minor interest is that the flight was handled by Aviance and not BA, and that it used gate 31 to park (hands up all those who remember the QF 747 that stayed at MAN for hours and hours parked remotely with some pretty big fall-out in the papers about the lack of handling!)

why?

I didn’t realise I had to get your permission!?!?

Seriously though, it was just to get a rough idea of how good a route was doing – no guarantee of profitability of the service, but still useful to know. In a similar vein, I spent almost the whole of summer 1994 going to MAN twice a week for 8 hours plus, and worked out back then that something had to happen with regard to a nrew runway and/or expanding the peak period as I was coming up with anything up to 50 movements an hour up to 10am on a runway capacity limit of 42 per hour.

Can anoyne confirm that Canada and the United Arab Emirates have liberalised their bilateral, as EK were offered 3 weekly services previously but declined, and that’s the reason why EY are operating into YYZ? If it’s not, we may have to treat the news about these “new” routes as just as much rubbish as the referee awarding that free kick some 5 seconds after the “foul” was committed and a nanosecond after the crowd shouted.