British Airways is moving to a temporary lounge at Manchester Airport

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• Mike Hindson-Evans says:

  8 Jun8 June 08:29

  BA had actually improved lounge provision in May of 2024, sliding back into part of what had been tgeir original lounge from the 1990s to the early 2000s.

  In March 2024, we were blown away by the Emirates lounge at Manchester Airport.

  T3 continues to deteriorate onto a facsimile of an overcrowded bus station.

  • Rob says:

    8 Jun8 June 09:43

    Emirates is leaving that lounge too of course.

    • sigma421 says:

      8 Jun8 June 09:55

      Although they are opening a new lounge in T2.

• RC says:

  8 Jun8 June 08:32

  So as usual BA is unprepared, Kate, disorganised and is unable to work with others to avoid this mess.
  Why is the company so dysfunctional and ‘unable to play well with others’?

  • Barrel for Scraping says:

    8 Jun8 June 09:07

    What’s this comment relating to?

• apbj says:

  8 Jun8 June 08:37

  I endured the Escape lounge the other day. Even on a weekday morning it was bouncing to loud music and all the tables were reserved for groups trying to get as p1ssed as possible. A voucher for the terminal would be a huge improvement.

• Dan Carey says:

  8 Jun8 June 08:56

  Manchester is just a hell hole. Every lounge is rammed with tangoed hens and huel drinking stags pouring as much booze down their guzzle at 7am before their easyJet flight. It’s a depressing experience.

  • Alex says:

    8 Jun8 June 09:19

    Do us a favour and don’t bother coming then.

    • Dan says:

      9 Jun9 June 07:18

      I don’t these days! It’s too depressing.

  • Barrel for Scraping says:

    8 Jun8 June 09:30

    Not sure what the relevance is here. BA and easyJet don’t share a terminal at Manchester

  • Rob says:

    8 Jun8 June 09:37

    I was out in Manchester last Friday night with my daughter (The Village, Northern Quarter) and I found it quite entertaining. Kings Road / Fulham Road on a Friday night it certainly isn’t.

    • RC says:

      8 Jun8 June 16:08

      No moped riding mobile phone and watch thieves then? And people under 60 visible?

    • Tezza1978 says:

      10 Jun10 June 00:48

      Northern Quarter is great. Been a stomping ground for me and my mates for donkeys years since I started Uni in 1997. I’m less of a spring chicken than I used to be admittedly (46) but still enjoy a night out there, 2 of my mates DJ at several of the bars from time to time.

  • RussellH says:

    8 Jun8 June 10:36

    But you can see it all at MAN. Several years ago I was in the holding pen for a flight to Prague. To my left were a couple of groups of hens wearing T-Shirts with highly suggestive comments, to my right two tall women (presumably) in burkas; from the angle of their heads apparently watching the hens very closely.

    • David says:

      8 Jun8 June 11:05

      Why do you feel the need to (slip in) your thinly disguised racism into your observations?

      • Mike Fish says:

        8 Jun8 June 14:18

        @David, you’ll have to explain the racism as I see none in his comment. He was stating what a diverse place MAN is. How should he have described the situation to your satisfaction?

    • John says:

      8 Jun8 June 11:30

      Just after retrieving my luggage in a European airport, I noticed a woman in a niqab who appeared to have just arrived from Pakistan (I saw her holding a passport from that country). We both happened to be heading towards the attached train station and boarded the same train.

      In the process of sitting down, she removed the niqab and packed it away, revealing a head shaved on one side and the other side dyed in rainbow colours. She was wearing a large hooped earring and a “skimpy” dress which showed off several tattoos.

• Paul Gordon says:

  8 Jun8 June 09:38

  As we live near Manchester it’s the most convenient airport but there are very few British Airways flights so not sure why they need a lounge, is it for the London commuter more than the tourist traveler?

  • Rob says:

    8 Jun8 June 09:48

    It’s because people won’t book MAN-LHR-BKK on BA if there is no BA lounge when they could book MAN-DXB-BKK on Emirates and get a Manchester lounge.

    • Barrel for Scraping says:

      8 Jun8 June 10:30

      If they’re intending to fly LHR-BKK on BA there’s a bigger problem than a lack of a lounge in MAN. If you’re giving examples it’s better to use a route that actually exists

      • jamestg86 says:

        8 Jun8 June 10:58

        Hahaha made me LOL – takes some doing with a stinking hangover from a London trip yesterday…

        ps) I went with Avanti, obs, not BA 🙂 have to say it was perfect in Standard Premium, and cheap

• Diydegsy says:

  8 Jun8 June 09:40

  Why can’t someone at Manchester airport just state the approximate date of when the new lounge will be open, and what is actually taking place, it’s not rocket science?

  • daveinitalia says:

    8 Jun8 June 16:00

    The space where the lounge currently is will not be a lounge in the future, they’re turning the upstairs into a bar area. When BA move out T3 will be the Ryanair terminal so no status passengers to worry about and the airport have decided that this space is more profitable as a bar than as lounges.

• ADS says:

  8 Jun8 June 09:52

  speaking of temporary lounges … Cork airport is getting one from “mid June”

  https://www.facebook.com/FlyCork/posts/wed-like-to-provide-an-update-regarding-our-executive-lounge-facility-at-cork-ai/1123045746530465/

  • daveinitalia says:

    8 Jun8 June 14:14

    Good to see them confirming this

• s says:

  8 Jun8 June 10:33

  the T2 development is a funny one. flew out of there last week. the loos has only 2 toilets/urinal’s . the depArture lounges seemed to be at capacity with no seats free.
  low ceilings and as ever in the north corners cut to save a few pence. airport is not a great advert for such a fast growing city and instead is mimicking its airlines ryanair and jet2 in customer treatment

  • Barrel for Scraping says:

    8 Jun8 June 11:05

    I thought Jet2 had a reputation for good customer service

    • Rob says:

      8 Jun8 June 11:47

      Jet2 is fantastic.

      • jamestg86 says:

        8 Jun8 June 12:21

        and really ought to be promoted more here… no one else has people helping you after passport control, telling you where you bags will be, with dedicated people then helping you with bags. Lightyears ahead of BA, but be careful with some of their wild pricing. They favour the Jet2Holiday bookings (obs).

        Quite comfortably the best airline in the UK atm. Good shout out Rob 🙂

        • HampshireHog says:

          8 Jun8 June 13:08

          Correct, their core market is clearly now package tourists, often infrequent travelers who require help throughout the process and cluttering up such as security with their oversize toiletries, the lounges with noisy guzzling and the seats with their ample bottoms.
          Flight only prices are usually in my experience extortionate compared to EasyJet and Ryanair so I guess they are just using flight only sales to fill left over seats?

        • Rob says:

          8 Jun8 June 13:50

          EasyJet is going the same way on leisure routes – which is perfectly logical, why ‘waste’ a seat on flight only when a Holidays customer will add a £2,000 hotel which pays £400 commission with no capital outlay?

        • Throwawayname says:

          8 Jun8 June 14:16

          The shift in the business model may end up creating opportunities for last minute flight-only bargains, in the same way that TUI premium economy can sometimes be a way of crossing the Atlantic in reasonable comfort without needing to spend a lot of money.

      • RC says:

        8 Jun8 June 16:14

        Awesome airline at Jet2 and some great rates at high end hotels with often the ‘better’ rooms in the room category. Jet2 always fast in bag delivery. It’s a nice return home.

        Nothing worse than BA trashing the end of a holiday by waiting 1-2 hours for BA to be bothered to return bags – if you’re lucky.

        Jet2 always seem really fast with getting bags BACK to us. It’s very clear they work for their customers, (rather than viewing them as an inconvenience but necessary for profits – as it feels at BA).

      • Dan says:

        9 Jun9 June 07:22

        Agree – flew them to BCN for. LBA to avoid MAN. Although the constant “enjoy your holiday” when you are going on a miserable work trip starts to get annoying! 😂

      • Tezza1978 says:

        10 Jun10 June 00:50

        Great customer service always, staff always kind and chatty with my children, easily the best low cost airline. Use Jet2 all the time for family holidays.

      • s says:

        10 Jun10 June 20:45

        seat quality was awful on jet 2, the depth of the seat base is too short which means no leg support. knee room seemed better than other airlines but seats felt so much more narrow and uncomfortable

        maybe i had a bad run from Lanzarote as school hols and packed plane but air crew were the most disinterested and surly i’ve come across.

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