Bits: BA Manchester changes?, bonus Avios from Avis, 20% off Friends & Family Railcards

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• Simon Schus says:

  12 Feb12 February 04:22

  I’d much prefer BA to fly fro MAN Terminal 1 than MAN Terminal 3! T3 feels so crowded, cramped and with all sorts of odd angles in the construction. T1 feels much more open… and has a Paperchase. 🙂

  Let’s see what happens 🙂

• MAN Airport Employee says:

  12 Feb12 February 05:19

  I can categorically say that BA will NOT move from T3 to T1 at Manchester. T1 does not have infrastructure for domestic flights (biometrics for facial recognition and also domestic baggage hall/reclaim).

  If BA were to pick up the JFK flight, this will be served from T3 as the AA flights are now operated from T3 and also due to the AA/BA alliance they will not move terminals.

  • Anna says:

    12 Feb12 February 08:37

    They’d have to move the lounge as well.

  • Rob says:

    12 Feb12 February 08:43

    It was a BA Manchester employee who shared this story ….

    • MAN Airport Employee says:

      12 Feb12 February 14:26

      Rob – all EZY Belfast flights are bussed from the gate to the reclaim carousel as there are no pier served domestic routes in T1. I’m not sure BA would want every single one of their passengers to be bussed from the aircraft on every single flight given the airport charges the airline for bus service.

      • ECR says:

        12 Feb12 February 19:43

        So pretty much the same situation regarding buses for domestics as in Gatwick South Terminal then? It doesn’t seem to have stopped BA moving there from the North Terminal. I’ve absolutely no knowledge or interest as to whether BA move from T3 to T1 or not but the fact there are already domestic flights shows it is possible.

        Whatever happens you can be sure that both BA and Manchester Airport will attempt to make whatever arrangements they think will make them the most money.

  • Northern Lad says:

    12 Feb12 February 09:17

    As T1 is planned to be demolished in 5 years time it does seem a bit implausible. Maybe a move to an expanded T2 though is less implausible, especially with the proposed US Customs pre-clearance?

    • MAN Airport Employee says:

      12 Feb12 February 14:29

      T1 isn’t being demolished in the upgrade. It’s being refurbished and connected to T2 and T3 to create a super terminal. Part of C pier won’t be in use (stands 22-28ish).

      The old tower block in T1 is being demolished at some point though.

  • ECR says:

    12 Feb12 February 10:24

    Manchester T1 currently has domestic flights as Easyjet fly to Belfast from there. I’m not sure if there are any other domestic routes.

    • MAN Airport Employee says:

      12 Feb12 February 14:26

      See my above reply to Rob.

• MAN Airport Employee says:

  12 Feb12 February 05:26

  Oh and possible reason for JFK not being bookable with AA from MAN after 28/10/17 is because it’s a seasonal flight and doesn’t operate all of the winter season.

  • barry Cutters says:

    12 Feb12 February 10:36

    Ba are taking on the AA JFK from Manchester .
    The will also be adding a Florida route, probably Orlando.
    -However could end up being Ft laurderdale.

    Also they will be operating from T1.

    • Rob says:

      12 Feb12 February 11:52

      Sounds like getting in before Norwegian sets up home ….

      • Barry cutters says:

        12 Feb12 February 19:53

        Exactly the reason behind this.

        JFK is an easy one as American more than happy to give it up, BA can run that route more profitablly once it has base again there.

• czechoslovakia says:

  12 Feb12 February 07:06

  Liking the “artists impression” of the future new terminal at MAN. Looks a vast improvement over the dump it is now.

• PGW says:

  12 Feb12 February 07:09

  All seems rather speculative on the Manchester story (which is acknowledged of course). As somebody has already pointed out, there is a very good reason why you can’t book the AA service to JFK after October.

  BA taking over that route would mean that for anybody whose final start/end point is other than NYC itself and is connecting to another flight would need to change terminal which at present isn’t necessary.

• John T says:

  12 Feb12 February 07:14

  O/T: Does anyone know if it is possible to book reward flights from Australia to Fiji using Amex MR or Avios? I can see reward availability if I search on Qantas but get stuck after that.

  • James67 says:

    12 Feb12 February 08:25

    What do you mean by getting stuck, it will not book it? Just call BA and ask them, if it’s really available and you cannot book it online for some reason at their fault they will not charge you the call centre fee to book it for you.

  • BrianDT says:

    12 Feb12 February 08:27

    Call Avios, we’ve just booked but from NZ.

    • BrianDT says:

      12 Feb12 February 08:30

      nb Most Qantas ‘local’ flights can’t be booked on line. I checked availability on line and then called Avios, ( no extra call charge)

      • The_real_a says:

        12 Feb12 February 08:37

        God help us when the contact centre is in India

        • John T says:

          12 Feb12 February 08:53

          I found reward availability on the Qantas website, albeit all flights appeared to be code shares. I called the BA executive club line and they couldn’t find any availability. Could it be a code share issue? i.e. can Avios be used to book them?

        • James67 says:

          12 Feb12 February 08:56

          That might just be the case,personally I found BMI call centre in Pune to be the best thing since sliced bread. Travel has never been so flexible or rewarding since.

        • the real harry1 says:

          12 Feb12 February 10:13

          Just had 2 calls to EE/ T-Mobile in India (I assume) – both were perfectly fluent in English and efficient in sorting me out

• Frankie says:

  12 Feb12 February 07:50

  Cool pic. Is it real? Manchester airport really looked like that in the olden days?

• Nick says:

  12 Feb12 February 07:57

  Re the Avis offer. Does anyone know how you can tell if you are one of the first 100 for the extra avios?

  • Johnny_c-l says:

    12 Feb12 February 08:17

    The promo has been running since 1st Feb, the first 100 went some time ago.

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