Hi all,

Got a rare few hours in the Manchester region tomorrow and planning to stop off at the viewing park.

Are there any interesting movements planned for tomorrow - what are the busiest times for normal operations?

Thanks.
 
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Just a reminder that runway operating hours change from 9th July:-

Monday to Friday (inclusive)
26th March-8th July 2018
Dual runway operations will be in operation between
06:30hrs - 10:30hrs and 13:00hrs – 20:00hrs
9th July 2018-28th October 2018
Dual runway operations will be in operation between
06:15hrs - 20:00hrs
Saturday
26th March-8th July 2018
Dual runway operations will be in operation between
06:30hrs - 10:30hrs and 13:00hrs – 16:00hrs
9th July 2018-28th October 2018
Dual runway operations will be in operation between
06:15hrs – 16:00hrs
Sunday
26th March-8th July 2018
Dual runway operations will be in operation between
13:00hrs - 17:00hrs
9th July 2018-28th October 2018
Dual runway operations will be in operation between
06:15hrs – 09:30hrs and 13:00hrs- 20:00hrs.
Runway 05L/23R will be in operation as a single runway at all other times
 
Does anybody know the outcome of the airport/union talks last with with regards to possible strike action?

Sorry if it's already been posted.
 
I see the road system, from what I can see on the Manchester side of the 4M Building is locked up, so the airport spur and the area in front of Voyager. Lots of taxis, a few with Unite flags!
 
Seemingly, after the police started re-directing taxis down the M56 spur away from the airport the taxis are now doing a slow moving roadblock down the M56 spur!
 
Manchester airport has been ranked for family friendliness by Netflights.com. The North West airport scord worst out of the top 5 major airports. Neighbouring airports Liverpool and Leeds Bradford also scored poorly with Leeds Bradford bottom of the list for family friendliness of all the UK and Channel Island Airports. Birmingham, Gatwick, Stansted and Edinburgh all ranked highly.

Here are the 20 major airports in the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands, ranked by family-friendliness:

1. Birmingham: 8.7/10
2. Jersey: 8.1/10
3. London Gatwick: 7.8/10
4. London Heathrow: 7.8/10
5. Cork: 7.3/10
6. Dublin: 7/10
7. Glasgow: 6.7/10
8. Edinburgh: 6.4/10
9. Newcastle: 6.4/10
10. London Luton: 6.1/10
11. London Stansted: 5.5/10
12. Liverpool John Lennon: 5.2/10
13. Bristol: 5.2/10
14. Cardiff: 4.9/10
15. Manchester: 4.9/10
16. East Midlands: 4.6/10
17. Southampton: 4.4/10
18. London City: 4.4/10
19. Belfast International: 3.8/10
20. Leeds Bradford: 3.2/10
 
Manchester airport has been ranked for family friendliness by Netflights.com. The North West airport scord worst out of the top 5 major airports. Neighbouring airports Liverpool and Leeds Bradford also scored poorly with Leeds Bradford bottom of the list for family friendliness of all the UK and Channel Island Airports. Birmingham, Gatwick, Stansted and Edinburgh all ranked highly.

Here are the 20 major airports in the UK, Ireland and Channel Islands, ranked by family-friendliness:

1. Birmingham: 8.7/10
2. Jersey: 8.1/10
3. London Gatwick: 7.8/10
4. London Heathrow: 7.8/10
5. Cork: 7.3/10
6. Dublin: 7/10
7. Glasgow: 6.7/10
8. Edinburgh: 6.4/10
9. Newcastle: 6.4/10
10. London Luton: 6.1/10
11. London Stansted: 5.5/10
12. Liverpool John Lennon: 5.2/10
13. Bristol: 5.2/10
14. Cardiff: 4.9/10
15. Manchester: 4.9/10
16. East Midlands: 4.6/10
17. Southampton: 4.4/10
18. London City: 4.4/10
19. Belfast International: 3.8/10
20. Leeds Bradford: 3.2/10

Netflights don't really tell you how they measure the 'family friendliness' of the airport. That is while you can see the categories, you can't tell how they get a score. Further, at least some of their information is just wrong. I will say that MAN leaves quite a bit to be desired. For instance, while MAN charges £5 for fast track if you have a pram or happen to be carrying the child they send you to the assistance lane. The lines are almost always shorter, though don't move any faster.

On a side note, does the children's play area in T2 no-longer exist. Did it go with the start of the TP?

edit: Found the ref for the on-time performance
 
On a side note, does the children's play area in T2 no-longer exist. Did it go with the start of the TP?

I think it has, that was up around the Costa Coffee or similar?
The new wall is immediately after the Frankie & Bennies and Customer Info desk if i'm not wrong!

Just to throw my two penneth in, personally never had huge issues using Manchester for as long as I can remember. Yes, security staff could be more cheerful but, I wouldn't pin that on MAG myself. Saying that, my user experiences are based on using T2 and T3 predominately, but have used both terminals at peak and off peak times and not experienced anything utterly catastrophic!

Perhaps I've just been lucky so far!
 
I think it has, that was up around the Costa Coffee or similar?
The new wall is immediately after the Frankie & Bennies and Customer Info desk if i'm not wrong!

This is correct, you have Frankie & Bennys, toliets, the info desk and then the big wall.
 
Interesting thread on airliners.net about Denver hitting 200 destinations. Someone's done a list of the top 25 in the world for destinations... and the shock result is that MAN currently resides in 12th place with 218 destinations. 21 routes are at least 3 daily (24th place), 53 at least daily (16th place), 104 at least 1 weekly (7th place!)
 

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