Manchester Airport news blog

  Jet2 add 2 Manchester routes Starting in 2022, Jet2 will begin flights to Athens and Toulouse from Manchester: Athens: LS1079 MAN 0630 ATH 1225 Thu/Sun LS1080 ATH 1325 MAN 1530 Thu/Sun B737-800 used, starts 11th April 2022 Toulouse: LS1777 MAN 0600 TLS 0910 Thu/Sun LS1778 TLS 0955 MAN 1105 Thu/Sun B737-800 used, starts 24th April 2022 Athens is served by Easyjet and Aegean, whereas Toulouse is only served peak winter by TUI.

  Jet2 summer 2022 changes While still some time away, I thought it worth documenting the Summer 2022 changes versus the summer 2021 schedule. This will be updated as the year goes on. Increases: Arricife 10 > 11 weekly Athens 0 > 2 weekly (new) Malaga 9 > 11 weekly Antalya 14 > 16 weekly Bodrum 5 > 6 weekly Ibiza 13 > 14 weekly Mykonos 1 > 2 weekly Skiathos 3 > 4 weekly Kalamata 1 > 2 weekly Mytiline 1 > 2 weekly Palma 30 > 31 weekly Pisa 3 > 4 weekly Preveza 2 > 3 weekly Reykjavik 0 > 2 weekly (new year round flights) Tivat 0 > 2 weekly (new) Toulouse 0 > 2 weekly (new) Vienna 0 > 2 weekly (no flights in August) Decreases: Corfu 8 > 7 weekly Kos 7 > 6 weekly Santorini 4 > 3 weekly. As ever, subject to change.

  Turkish Airlines adds 2 routes. Starting June 19th 2021, Turkish Airlines will add 2 routes to Manchester, with the addition of Dalaman and Antalya: TK4011 DLM 0820 MAN 1100 daily  TK4012 MAN 1200 DLM 1825 daily TK4009 AYT 1050 MAN 1325 daily TK4010 MAN 1430 AYT 1855 daily  B737-800 used on both flights.  This is in addition to the recently announced sun express route to Antalya, which means overall, Turkish Airlines group will have 32 weekly flights to Manchester, up from the 14 of 2019 and planned 2020 schedule.

Aer Lingus adds 3 USA routes. Starting 1st July, Aer Lingus UK will base 4 aircraft at Manchester to operate 3 new Trans-Atlantic routes. The 2nd A330 operates as a back up due to the complexities of the UK AOC versus just the Irish AOC. Proposed schedule detailed below, but may be subject to change: Boston: EI45 MAN 1100 BOS 1330 daily EI44 BOS 1820 MAN 0650 daily  A321N used, tentatively starts 2nd July. New York JFK: EI41 MAN 1405 JFK 1700 daily EI40 JFK 1950 MAN 0735 daily A321N used, tentatively starts 1st July. Orlando: EI35 MAN 1100 MCO 1500 daily EI34 MCO 1930 MAN 0835 daily A330-300 used, tentatively starts 1st July. All 3 routes should hopefully go on sale this month. Flight numbers are likely to change as they will operate on UK AOC, which usually dictates a new flight code (such as Ryanair UK using RK instead of FR and Easyjet Europe using EJU instead of U2).  

Christmas message Given twitter has a limited number of characters, I thought I’d write a Christmas message here in a blog post instead. Well, what a year 2020 has been, and I’m sure it’s a year many would like to forget. To say it has been challenging would be an understatement. If this year, you have had to leave your job, both voluntarily or compulsory, I hope 2021 brings you the chance to get back in Employment if not already done so. If this year, you have lost a close friend or relative, both covid and non covid related, I hope 2021 brings you the chance to rebuild, remember and begin the healing process for you. If this year, it’s meant little travel opportunity, not seeing friends or family, or just feeling isolated, let 2021 be the year of exploration, discovery and reconnecting. Thank you so much for following this account. I know it’s not been a normal year, I know my tweets go a little off piste occasionally, and I know the news has probably been a little more negative than...

  easyjet adds 3 routes Starting in 2021, Easyjet will add 3 new routes to Manchester, as well as move Gran Canaria from winter only to Year round. U21935 MAN 0545 IBZ 0935 Thu U21935 MAN 0605 IBZ 0950 Tue U21935 MAN 1255 IBZ 1650 Sat U21936 IBZ 1010 MAN 1205 Thu U21936 IBZ 1025 MAN 1220 Tue U21936 IBZ 1725 MAN 1920 Sat Starts 1st June 2021 Enfidha  U21999 MAN 0500 NBE 0930 Mon U21999 MAN 0700 NBE 1130 Fri U22000 NBE 1010 MAN 1240 Mon U22000 NBE 1210 MAN 1440 Fri Starts 3rd May 2021 Kos U21975 MAN 0525 KGS 1140 Tue U21975 MAN 0700 KGS 1315 Sat U21976 KGS 1225 MAN 1440 Tue U21976 KGS 1400 MAN 1615 Sat Starts 30th March 2021 Las Palmas U21909 MAN 1525 LPA 1945 Fri U21909 MAN 1720 LPA 2140 Mon U21910 LPA 2025 MAN 0050 Fri U21910 LPA 2225 MAN 0250 Mon Resumes 4th June 2021 to become a year round route. Ibiza:

United Airlines at Manchester. The curious case of a disappearing airline. It’s far to say, Covid has wreaked havoc on the aviation industry. Prolonged border closures, public perceptions of the virus and job losses across the globe has put a huge strain on an industry which was booming in 2019. Manchester has been no exception to losing flights. BA cityflyer has pulled their weekend operation, Westjet has postponed its Halifax launch for the foreseeable and Oman Air have suspended their Muscat route indefinitely too. There was one airline however, where their pull out puzzled me a little more than the others, and that was United Airlines. United have been serving Manchester for bee 20, although the majority of those years were flying under the Continental banner, in the days before the United/Continental merger. In that time, the flight used the DC-10, the B757, B777-200 (including the brilliant Peter Max livery) as well as 3 variants of the B767 (-200, -300 And -400). 2019 was when t...