Virgin Atlantic (VS/VIR) is making changes to its schedules from Manchester Airport as it switches to an all Boeing 747-400 operation for Winter 18/19. The airport previously had a mix of Airbus A330 and Boeing 747 aircraft but the latest changes to its Atlanta and New York JFK flights see [read more]
A temporary building forming part of Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) has been evacuated after a crack appeared in a wall and floor. Passengers took to social media site Twitter to describe hearing loud bangs and seeing cracks in the structure. One user, Andrea Atherton posted pictures of a [read more]
Major Indian airlines Jet Airways (9w/JAI) has announced that it will operate a four-times-weekly service from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to Mumbai (BOM/VABB). The route will start in November 2018 and will operate on Monday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday using an Airbus A330 with 254 seats. The route will be Jet Airways [read more]
Ethiopian Airlines has announced it is extending its UK network to include Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) from 1st December 2018. The four-times-per-week flight will be operated by a 2-class Boeing 787 Dreamliner and whilst Addis Ababa (ADD/HAAB) to Manchester will be direct, the Manchester to Addis Ababa sector will go via [read more]
Belgian carrier VLM has announced it is to begin flights from Manchester Airport to Antwerp and Ostend-Bruges from October 2018. VLM will operate flights to Antwerp twice daily Monday to Friday, with daily flights over the weekend. Ostend-Bruges will be served once a day. The Ostend-Bruges service is a first [read more]
UK holiday airline Thomas Cook is planning to add a series of charter flights to Sri Lanka to its Winter 18/19 program. The flights will operate from London Gatwick (LGW/EGKK) and Manchester (MAN/EGCC) to Colombo (CMB/VCBI) in October 2018 and January 2019 using an Airbus A330-200 aircraft. Colombo is the [read more]
Low-Cost airline Jet2.com has announced it is increasing flights at some airports and adding a new route at East Midlands in the 2nd half of Summer 18. Birmingham Airport (BHX/EGBB) sees increases on 5 routes with Corfu increases to twice-weekly, Iraklion, Mahon and Rhodes to four-times-per-week and Zakynthos up to [read more]
TUI has announced what it describes as its “most ambitious summer programme ever” for Summer 2019 including extra capacity and new routes at Manchester Airport, Birmingham Airport and Cardiff Airport. The UK Holiday company has said it will basing additional aircraft giving an increase in capacity of 110,000 at Manchester, [read more]
Low-cost airliner Primera Air has announced several new routes including from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to Malaga, Spain. The route will be operated from Primera Air’s new base in Malaga and will operate 4 times per week on a Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday. Primera Air says that Malaga is traditionally [read more]
The last surviving Dambuster, Johnny Johnson MBE DFM will be giving a talk at Manchester Airport’s Runway Visitors Park on 19th April. The talk, which is part of Manchester Airport‘s 80th birthday celebrations, will see Mr Johnsoon talk about his role in the raids on German dams in May 1943 by [read more]
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