Ethiopian Airlines to launch flights from Manchester to Addis Ababa

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• Aeronaut says:

  16 May16 May 04:18

  Would you take forty winks?

• Troll Basher says:

  16 May16 May 05:43

  Ethiopian is an interesting addition to the MAN portfolio. Specifically, it adds to the already impressive tally of Star Alliance destinations available from the northern gateway which, with the rumoured imminent announcement of Thai to BKK, further enhances their position as the dominant alliance.

  It’s becoming increasingly difficult to remain loyal to OneWorld when Star Alliance are consolidating their position of strength.

• JamesB says:

  16 May16 May 06:04

  Probably have to appear in the TV show promoting BA…could many HFP readers live that down? Thanks for this, I’m having a go.

• Andreas says:

  16 May16 May 06:33

  Any word on Ethiopian having rights to sell tickets for only the MAN BRU route? They are opening a similar route to BCN via MAD but they don’t have rights to sell tickets for only the BCN MAD legs, but maybe because it’s a national route.

  • Nick says:

    16 May16 May 13:51

    In Europe these rules are set at EU not national level, so if they are unable to sell BCNMAD then they will be unable to serve MANBRU.
    (Caveat – assuming it’s a rights thing and not a choice one. There are other reasons they may elect not to serve one but not the other even if they have the right to.)

• filipino_chino says:

  16 May16 May 07:27

  Really looking forward to this new route, always wanted to go to Addis Ababa and with flights from MAN – hopefully i can get an opening offer…

  Hopefully more airlines will start routes from MAN as it has so much better transport routes than other midland or northern airports.

  • wally1976 says:

    16 May16 May 21:49

    I’ve always said this about my nearest airport, BHX. Train time from there to central Birmingham is 9 minutes and to central London (Euston) it’s just 75 minutes.

• mark2 says:

  16 May16 May 08:26

  re Competition
  I had trouble typing post code etc. as the page seemed to be set for right-to-left languages.
  I was able to paste the data however.

• S***o says:

  16 May16 May 09:02

  OT/ Do Marriott still honour status benefits on third-party bookings? – any special I need to do?

  • Genghis says:

    16 May16 May 12:21

    I email hotel then booking appears on Marriott bookings

• James says:

  16 May16 May 09:58

  OT: Just received another letter in the post from MBNA this time for the American Airlines card. Ending 28 July 2018.

  • Rob says:

    16 May16 May 10:01

    Boo. Wonder if I’m getting a letter about my Lufty card ….

    • KP says:

      16 May16 May 10:07

      How will you keep your M&M account alive now? MR to M&M?

      • meta says:

        16 May16 May 11:24

        I am in the same boat. You can’t transfer MR to M&M. Also that wouldn’t do as your miles don’t expire only if you hold a M&M credit card. I was thinking that mileage pooling might help, but it was introduced outside Germany, Austria, Switzerland for now. Hopefully, that will come soon enough or at least before the card is closed and my miles expire immediately.

        • Rob says:

          16 May16 May 13:08

          Best route is Amex to Starwood to M&M but, as you say, that is only good for a top-up before you empty your account. It won’t stop expiry unless Lufty takes pity on those of us who lose the card for no fault of our own.

          If I was Lufty I would become an Amex MR partner if they are certain they won’t get back into bed with a UK issuer.

      • meta says:

        16 May16 May 11:26

        Sorry it should read that mileage pooling isn’t possible outside Germany, Austria or Switzerland.

      • JamesB says:

        16 May16 May 18:26

        Fly LH and their *A partners.

  • AA forever says:

    16 May16 May 19:01

    So for those of us that want to keep our AA miles alive, apart from crediting a OW or partner flight, how many other ways are there to keep adding to points here in the UK?

    • RK says:

      16 May16 May 19:49

      Buy some AA miles, that will keep activity alive and prolong the account

    • Rob says:

      16 May16 May 19:59

      SPG Amex is probably best. 1.25 per £1 converting in chunks of 20k.

    • Yan says:

      16 May16 May 20:51

      A quick reply on awardwallet’s blog gets your 5 AA miles. Just did this recently and miles posted after a couple of days.

    • Thomas Howard says:

      16 May16 May 22:05

      Europcar offer 50 miles per day, usually take an age to post though and I often end up chasing them after 90 days.

  • Alan says:

    16 May16 May 22:16

    Was just about to post the same 🙁 Such a shame – although stops me having to decide about whether it’s worth paying the renewal fee or not! I only opened it in August though so won’t have had a full year out the card, wonder if they’ll do anything about the annual fee…

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