- Jul 16, 2015
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Unlikely to see consolidation just yet.
After years of wondering what will happen regarding the 3rd LHR runway or 2nd runway, the airlines are now putting in place action plans to be able to grow their ops in the face of constraints.
Manchester is one of the first clear benefactors of this, as the new Virgin routes announced recently are part of a forward strategy with Delta and Virgin in that MAN is now to become a relief hub for the UK flights. LHR will deal with the main bulk of flights, obviously, and be primarily a London and South east entry. Gatwick will remain the leisure hub, but, Manchester will become their 'rest of UK hub' save a few flights to the likes of EDI-JFK and GLA flights.
We are going to see a lot more flights to come, the routes team is having to employ more people as they have been so busy of late with airlines wanting to get the forward plans in before MAN too becomes constrained for morning slots.
The next 2-3 years are going to be the big game changing years, MAN has had brilliant growth in the last few years, but, the next 3 look to really steam ahead, especially with things like the T2 development and US pre-Clearance, to which now has full funding paid for and just going through final consultation now.
After years of wondering what will happen regarding the 3rd LHR runway or 2nd runway, the airlines are now putting in place action plans to be able to grow their ops in the face of constraints.
Manchester is one of the first clear benefactors of this, as the new Virgin routes announced recently are part of a forward strategy with Delta and Virgin in that MAN is now to become a relief hub for the UK flights. LHR will deal with the main bulk of flights, obviously, and be primarily a London and South east entry. Gatwick will remain the leisure hub, but, Manchester will become their 'rest of UK hub' save a few flights to the likes of EDI-JFK and GLA flights.
We are going to see a lot more flights to come, the routes team is having to employ more people as they have been so busy of late with airlines wanting to get the forward plans in before MAN too becomes constrained for morning slots.
The next 2-3 years are going to be the big game changing years, MAN has had brilliant growth in the last few years, but, the next 3 look to really steam ahead, especially with things like the T2 development and US pre-Clearance, to which now has full funding paid for and just going through final consultation now.