Manchester Airport news blog

Aer Lingus could operate U.K. transatlantic Routes. On Monday 31st August, the Irish press had released a story. It was one of Aer Lingus, and their supposed efforts to operate trans Atlantic routes from the U.K. regions. A few people immediately wrote off the notion, however, delve a little deeper, and the idea isn’t as crazy as it sounds. As we all know by now, the world isn’t normal. Aviation is a sector that has been hit hard, and in this covid world, this also means airlines are having to turn its pre-conceived ideas on its head, and in some cases, do things they haven’t done before. (Or in the case of Aer Lingus, do something they haven’t done for a long time, given they have previously given the MAN-JFK route a crack in 1995). So, what’s the plan that Aer Lingus have? Currently, the Irish Airline bases 2 of its new A321N at Shannon. With no end in sight for Irish restrictions on TATL routes, Aer Lingus are looking to move those 2 A321N to a U.K. airport, and run TATL...

EasyJet adds Isle Of Man Starting Oct 26th, Easyjet will add a 3 weekly,  U2321 MAN 1140 IOM 1235 Mon U2321 MAN 1500 IOM 1555 Thu U2321 MAN 1615 IOM 1710 Fri U2322 IOM 1305 MAN 1400 Mon U2322 IOM 1625 MAN 1720 Thu U2322 IOM 1740 MAN 1835 Fri A319/A320 used. The Easyjet app is showing an intention to operate 5 weekly, with flight days also showing on Wed and Sun, but no flights bookable at this time. Loganair also serve this route , with suggestions Aurigny are also due to launch the route.

DFDS mini review. This month, I took the oppertunity to travel on DFDS ferries route from Newhaven to Dieppe. The first thing to note, this ship is actually owned by Transmanche ferries, to which the vessel is painted in a rather bright yellow and white livery. The price paid was £229 for a return crossing, involving 4 people and a car. Cabins can usually be purchased for around £45 each way, however, due to the ongoing covid situation, these were not available for our crossings. Crossings are approximately 4 hours long on this route, and they seem to use 2 vessels on this service.   So, what were they like: Boarding: Quick and painless. You pull up to a booth, they check your passport (and in current times asked us to fill out a French health form), and then assign you a queue to wait in for boarding. Check in closed 90 minutes before departure, however, I’m not sure how strictly they enforce that as they also have a side note saying last drive up is -45 mins to d...