Manchester Airport pulls Terminal 3 re-opening at the last minute

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• Peter K says:

  24 Mar24 March 09:25

  Is the PremiAir terminal open again? That might be worth investing in!

  • Mr(s) Entitled says:

    24 Mar24 March 09:51

    Sadly it is still closed.

    • Peter K says:

      24 Mar24 March 12:30

      Shame.

• Andrew. says:

  24 Mar24 March 09:27

  With 65% of Manchester Airport Group owned by the local authorities around Manchester, isn’t it time to start complaining to Andy Burnham?

  • dougzz99 says:

    24 Mar24 March 11:08

    If anyone in ownership or management is unaware they’ve no place in management or ownership. They clearly don’t care, MAN was an awful experience long before COVID and the differences that has made.
    In 2017 I bought 2 sub £1000 AA fares from MAN to Minneapolis and San Antonio, thought I’d give it a go. The MAN experience was more than bad, it was further worsened by staff determined to make it worse. My favourite was pulling families and a few other randoms out of the regular queue into Fast Track. When pointed out that the regular queue would now be faster I was treated to some quality customer service messages from the idiot managing the queues. I asked for a supervisor but one couldn’t be found. Decided then and there MAN no more forever.
    I genuinely feel sorry for those that through their location and route choices have to use MAN.

    • NorthernLass says:

      24 Mar24 March 11:31

      They hate people travelling in business so they routinely select families with loads of bags and prams to push into the priority queue in front of you, while at the same time scrutinising your boarding pass desperately trying to find something wrong with it!

    • will says:

      24 Mar24 March 12:25

      I know it’s not the airports doing, but when I flew last week, the chap in front of me at check in lost it abusing the check in staff, who then refused to check him in and he then proceeded to punch the perspex screen until it shattered into pieces, whole airport stood looking at him.

      His partner meanwhile faints and as they call the police he drags her up to her feet stumbling so he can get away, leaving his suitcase.

      Surreal experience.

      Had my 2 year old with me, “man bang” she kept saying through the airport.

  • ChrisC says:

    24 Mar24 March 12:41

    He has no control over the individual Local Authorities who hold the shares.

    • ChrisC says:

      24 Mar24 March 12:42

      Or indeed the private company who owns approx 1/3rd of the company,

• xcalx says:

  24 Mar24 March 10:00

  Flying BA euro traveler next week is BOB back or is it pre order thanks. First time down the back in a long time.

  • bafan says:

    24 Mar24 March 10:04

    It’s a hybrid. You can order tea, coffee and snacks on demand but anything more substantial requires preordering.

    • xcalx says:

      24 Mar24 March 10:24

      Thanks , so i will need to order a couple of wines?

  • Rob says:

    24 Mar24 March 10:27

    I’m guessing its BOB given that the service is meant to match Heathrow.

    • xcalx says:

      24 Mar24 March 10:43

      I’m on the MAN-LHR then LHR-MAD both flights in manage my booking are showing
      “Our onboard menu is now pre-purchase only. Order your food and drink favourites before flying.” I thought BOB was back but looks like it’s not.

      • Rob says:

        24 Mar24 March 10:45

        BOB was alive and well when we came back from Salzburg the other week.

        • xcalx says:

          24 Mar24 March 10:50

          Thanks,

        • Ian says:

          24 Mar24 March 17:00

          I flew LHR to MAN last week and the cabin crew announced they would serve ET passengers pre-ordered food and drinks first, then a BOB service only if time allowed.

• John T says:

  24 Mar24 March 10:22

  I do everything I can do avoid MAN T1 these days

• Lady London says:

  24 Mar24 March 10:26

  So Rhys’s Priority Pass got rejected? On a mid-term Wednesday in Manchester.

  Welcome to the sadly so very, very frequent experience of so many Priority Pass holders departing from major airports in the UK.

  • NorthernLass says:

    24 Mar24 March 11:08

    I’ve managed to get in a MAN lounge once out of about 4/5 attempts – I gave up after that, they are pretty dismal anyway!

  • Luke says:

    24 Mar24 March 11:33

    (lowest) is silent before Priority Pass, which is why I binned it years ago

  • Peter K says:

    24 Mar24 March 12:33

    Only tried PP twice at Manchester and got in both times. I must have been lucky I guess 🤷🏻‍♂️

    • David says:

      24 Mar24 March 14:40

      I’ve got un every time other than once over past 6-7 years of having PP. Too many drama queens on here.

      • Entitled says:

        24 Mar24 March 15:59

        T2 Oct half term last year and got into Escape Lounge (1903 was also open but the kids were in tow) as a party of 4.

        T1 Feb half term this year and got into Escape as a party of 4.

        2 for 2 in post Covid times.

      • yorkieflyer says:

        24 Mar24 March 20:47

        Sorry mate, people are simply relating their experiences, MAN has more legacy carriers than other northern airports and lounge space is correspondingly block booked by them. Turn up at the wrong time and it’s bye bye. We have a positive hit rate of maybe 1 in 5

• dougzz99 says:

  24 Mar24 March 10:59

  Liverpool Airport has done a bit of trolling of MAN on Twitter recently. Manchester airport experience has its own thread on FT BA board, it’s almost always on the front page as some new negative experience is reported. That’s not a recent thing either, it’s been an appalling airport for many years. You can only conclude it’s a choice to make it so bad. Given the complaints about BA and the absence of direct options from MAN, I’m surprised that connection in AMS/CDG/FRA via other far better airports in the north isn’t the go to move.

  • NorthernLass says:

    24 Mar24 March 11:13

    I think people who have only ever used MAN have no idea that not all airports are like that!
    Some years ago I realised that I hadn’t decanted the contents of my amenity kit at security at LHR coming back from somewhere long haul. The cheery security chap at T5 just said, “Ah, I know what those are”, and put the stuff in a plastic bag for me. I was expecting the ritual humiliation and verbal birching people generally get at MAN 🤣

• Kevin C says:

  24 Mar24 March 12:00

  A grammarian writes, I think you mean you’ve got a little ‘off’ sync this week.

• Vern says:

  24 Mar24 March 12:40

  We live an hour away from MAN and get free rail travel to it but we still drive down to LHR and fly from there instead.

  • Mr(s) Entitled says:

    24 Mar24 March 13:36

    I can get from my door to security in 20mins (and to the gate in 4hrs 20mins) but unless flying direct from MAN to our destination we still make use of LHR via car rather than connect if that is an option. Too many variables on the feeder service for my liking.

  • mvcvz says:

    25 Mar25 March 05:04

    I live 30 minutes from MAN but now always electively drive to LHR. I wouldn’t even consider a MAN-LHR connection.

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