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This list may be of interest to others living in the MAN catchment area. It’s my Sunday evening go-to list to price up speculative trips. If I’ve missed any alliance crediting possibilities please say.
Aberdeen – Loganair – non-aligned
Abu Dhabi – Etihad – non-aligned
Addis Ababa* – Ethiopian (stop at Geneva but same aircraft) – Star Alliance
Amsterdam – KLM – SkyTeam
Athens – Aegean – Star Alliance
Atlanta – Virgin Atlantic – SkyTeam
Bahrain – Gulf Air – non-aligned
Barbados – Aer Lingus – non-aligned (but possible to earn Avios)
Barbados – Virgin Atlantic – SkyTeam
Barcelona – Vueling** – non-aligned (but possible to earn Avios)
Belfast City – Aer Lingus – non-aligned (but possible to earn Avios)
Beijing PEK – Hainan Airlines – non-aligned
Bergen – SAS – Star Alliance
Brussels BRU – Brussels Airlines – Star Alliance
Cairo – Egyptair – Star Alliance
Copenhagen – SAS – Star Alliance
Doha – Qatar – OneWorld
Dubai DXB – Emirates – non-aligned
Dublin – Aer Lingus – non-aligned (but possible to earn Avios)
Dusseldorf – Eurowings – non-aligned (but possible to earn miles and tier points in some Star Alliance programmes)
Frankfurt – Lufthansa – Star Alliance
Geneva – Ethiopian – Star Alliance
Guernsey – Aurigny – non-aligned
Helsinki – Finnair – OneWorld
Hong Kong – Cathay Pacific – OneWorld
Houston IAH – Singapore – Star Alliance
Inverness – Loganair – non-aligned
Isle of Man – Loganair – non-aligned
Istanbul IST – Turkish – Star Alliance
Jeddah – Saudia – SkyTeam
Keflavik – Icelandair – non-aligned
Kuwait – Kuwait Airways – non-aligned
Lisbon – TAP – Star Alliance
London LHR – British Airways – OneWorld
Madrid – Iberia – OneWorld
Munich – Lufthansa – Star Alliance
Newquay – Loganair – non-aligned
New York JFK – Aer Lingus – non-aligned (but possible to earn Avios)
New York JFK – Virgin Atlantic – SkyTeam
Orlando MCO – Aer Lingus – non-aligned (but possible to earn Avios)
Orlando MCO – Virgin Atlantic – SkyTeam
Oslo OSL – SAS – Star Alliance
Paris CDG – Air France – SkyTeam
Singapore – Singapore Airlines – Star Alliance
Southampton – Eastern – non-aligned
Stockholm ARN – SAS – Star Alliance
Sylhet – Biman Bangladesh – non-aligned
Toronto YYZ – Air Canada – Star Alliance
Toronto YYZ – Air Transat – non-aligned
Vienna – Austrian Airlines – Star Alliance
Zurich – Swiss – Star Alliance
**Vueling’s LCC status is a question mark. It does offer a dedicated check in desk for those who pay more and the ability to book the seat next to you to keep empty.
Great info, thanks for your hard work. Saved for future reference.
I found it difficult to choose to fly Aegean, Austrian and Turkish to their respective capitals this last year when the LCCs are so much cheaper. Not worth the measly few miles against £100 or more in cash savings. Only reason to choose Turkish would be if I was connecting to somewhere else and wanted protection against mis-connects and/or take advantage of the FlyInstanbul free tours or hotels.
Is this your own work? If so, many thanks for the effort!
Excellent resource.
Despite it’s occasional fault, it is a reminder that for a regional airport MAN offers a significant amount of travel opportunities.
Just need PremiAir back and all those occasional faults disappear!
Is this your own work? If so, many thanks for the effort!
Yes. I have no kids and am an oddly intense single person. 🤷♂️
Excellent resource.
Despite it’s occasional fault, it is a reminder that for a regional airport MAN offers a significant amount of travel opportunities.
Just need PremiAir back and all those occasional faults disappear!
Yes this struck me too. I’m no fan of MAN and how it’s run. But I’m not sure to be fair the term regional should be applied to it. It has significant presence from Star Alliance and all the major non-aligneds. In the US it would be considered a major airport. I’ve always thought MAN’s biggest weakness is how small the rail station is. Creating a true hub would require the airport station to become a destination station in its own right; changing at Piccadilly is too risky and indeed inconvenient.
This is great, thanks! Perhaps we should call ourselves the MAN chapter of HFP, lol.
Has AA stopped the PHL route?
It’s not a bad list, I suppose, but I keep thinking back to pre-9/11 when you could fly direct to MLE, NAS, MIA, somewhere in Cuba plus others. Though I admit, I don’t think I’d ever choose to fly again to Maldives with Airtours as we did in 1999 …
*Also LGW and LCY plus the Short-lived CityFlyer routes you could book on avios.
This is great, thanks! Perhaps we should call ourselves the MAN chapter of HFP, lol.
Has AA stopped the PHL route?
It’s not a bad list, I suppose, but I keep thinking back to pre-9/11 when you could fly direct to MLE, NAS, MIA, somewhere in Cuba plus others. Though I admit, I don’t think I’d ever choose to fly again to Maldives with Airtours as we did in 1999 …
*Also LGW and LCY plus the Short-lived CityFlyer routes you could book on avios.
Yes AA to PHL gone since lockdown if not earlier. I did manage it once on the 787 with the much maligned rocking J seats (though had chosen a non-rocking one). Odd to check in for an intercontinental flight at T3. With United serving Edinburgh and Aer Lingus likely to expand its MAN-USA network, it looks unlikely Delta will return. A shame as I don’t want to fly VS on its clapped out A330s with dormitory seats.
I forgot about Delta, we did MAN-JFK-MIA and MAN-ATL-HNL in the early 2000’s. Those were the days when planes were hardly ever full so economy wasn’t the purgatorial experience it is nowadays!
*There was Delta Holidays then – we got flights, 3 nights in NYC + 7 night Caribbean cruise + 5 nights in MIA, under £800 each!
Great source of info, one missing, Billund on BA / Sun Air franchise
Great source of info, one missing, Billund on BA / Sun Air franchise
Is BA to Billund and Cambridge bookable for Joe Public? I thought those flights were limited to in effect charter services for Astra Zeneca? If publicly available I’ll add in.
Excellent resource.
Despite it’s occasional fault, it is a reminder that for a regional airport MAN offers a significant amount of travel opportunities.
Just need PremiAir back and all those occasional faults disappear!
Yes this struck me too. I’m no fan of MAN and how it’s run. But I’m not sure to be fair the term regional should be applied to it. It has significant presence from Star Alliance and all the major non-aligneds. In the US it would be considered a major airport. I’ve always thought MAN’s biggest weakness is how small the rail station is. Creating a true hub would require the airport station to become a destination station in its own right; changing at Piccadilly is too risky and indeed inconvenient.
Passenger numbers for 2019 pre-covid disruption would have MAN rank somewhere in the low 20’s in terms of airport size in the US. Something akin to Baltimore or Salt Lake. Is “large regional” a term? I think to be a major airport you ideally need to be a hub, and not a spoke. Keen advocate for it that I am because I think it is often unfairly maligned compared to other non-London airports, MAN is not a hub for any airline. But I’d rather have it on my doorstep than Birmingham, Glasgow etc.
@Northern Lass Cuba flights are available on TUI with or without a hotel package 2+2 partial reclining seats in premium for around £450 extra
Great source of info, one missing, Billund on BA / Sun Air franchise
Is BA to Billund and Cambridge bookable for Joe Public? I thought those flights were limited to in effect charter services for Astra Zeneca? If publicly available I’ll add in.
I believe it is, I have seen it on Avios before. It would make sense if it is, as Billund is the home of Lego with their HQ. Lego Land is in Billund (operated by Merlin Entertainment) and they operate Alton Towers, Cadbury World, most of Blackpool, Manchester and Birmingham LegoLand discovery centres.
You can book Billund, it prices at 500-700 quid on ‘BA’. You’d be insane to pay that when Ryanair do it for £30.
Great source of info, one missing, Billund on BA / Sun Air franchise
Is BA to Billund and Cambridge bookable for Joe Public? I thought those flights were limited to in effect charter services for Astra Zeneca? If publicly available I’ll add in.
I believe it is, I have seen it on Avios before. It would make sense if it is, as Billund is the home of Lego with their HQ. Lego Land is in Billund (operated by Merlin Entertainment) and they operate Alton Towers, Cadbury World, most of Blackpool, Manchester and Birmingham LegoLand discovery centres.
There is also a billund to Gothenburg flight, so probably a quick and easy change for Astra Zeneca employees
You can book Billund, it prices at 500-700 quid on ‘BA’. You’d be insane to pay that when Ryanair do it for £30.
Yeh it does but Merlin, Lego and Astra Zeneca probably have good deals, or don’t care as it saves so much time
I’ve seen that flight boarding (through the window of a Ryanair plane waiting to depart for TFS!) It looked like a private jet for business/tech folk.
List updated:
Aberdeen – Loganair – non-aligned
Abu Dhabi – Etihad – non-aligned
Addis Ababa* – Ethiopian (stop at Geneva but same aircraft) – Star Alliance
Amsterdam – KLM – SkyTeam
Athens – Aegean – Star Alliance
Atlanta – Virgin Atlantic – SkyTeam
Bahrain – Gulf Air – non-aligned
Barbados – Aer Lingus – non-aligned (but possible to earn Avios)
Barbados – Virgin Atlantic – SkyTeam
Barcelona – Vueling – non-aligned (but possible to earn Avios)
Belfast City – Aer Lingus – non-aligned (but possible to earn Avios)
Beijing PEK – Hainan Airlines – non-aligned
Bergen – SAS – Star Alliance
Billund – Sun Air obo British Airways – OneWorld
Brussels BRU – Brussels Airlines – Star Alliance
Cairo – Egyptair – Star Alliance
Copenhagen – SAS – Star Alliance
Doha – Qatar – OneWorld
Dubai DXB – Emirates – non-aligned
Dublin – Aer Lingus – non-aligned (but possible to earn Avios)
Dusseldorf – Eurowings – non-aligned (but possible to earn miles and tier points in some Star Alliance programmes)
Frankfurt – Lufthansa – Star Alliance
Geneva – Ethiopian – Star Alliance
Guernsey – Aurigny – non-aligned
Helsinki – Finnair – OneWorld
Hong Kong – Cathay Pacific – OneWorld
Houston IAH – Singapore – Star Alliance
Inverness – Loganair – non-aligned
Isle of Man – Loganair – non-aligned
Istanbul IST – Turkish – Star Alliance
Jeddah – Saudia – SkyTeam
Keflavik – Icelandair – non-aligned
Kuwait – Kuwait Airways – non-aligned
Lisbon – TAP – Star Alliance
London LHR – British Airways – OneWorld
Madrid – Iberia – OneWorld
Munich – Lufthansa – Star Alliance
Newquay – Loganair – non-aligned
New York JFK – Aer Lingus – non-aligned (but possible to earn Avios)
New York JFK – Virgin Atlantic – SkyTeam
Orlando MCO – Aer Lingus – non-aligned (but possible to earn Avios)
Orlando MCO – Virgin Atlantic – SkyTeam
Oslo OSL – SAS – Star Alliance
Paris CDG – Air France – SkyTeam
Singapore – Singapore Airlines – Star Alliance
Southampton – Eastern – non-aligned
Stockholm ARN – SAS – Star Alliance
Sylhet – Biman Bangladesh – non-aligned
Toronto YYZ – Air Canada – Star Alliance
Toronto YYZ – Air Transat – non-aligned
Vienna – Austrian Airlines – Star Alliance
Zurich – Swiss – Star Alliance
Thanks for the update. Only reason I noticed it was I want to fly on those planes!
I’ve seen that flight boarding (through the window of a Ryanair plane waiting to depart for TFS!) It looked like a private jet for business/tech folk.
Doesn’t surprise me but equally, I don’t fully understand how they would fill 25 seats a flight, let alone the full 32 with such expensive prices for tourists. Having said that, RyanAir clearly see enough demand for it, they operate a few times a week
@Northern Lass Cuba flights are available on TUI with or without a hotel package 2+2 partial reclining seats in premium for around £450 extra
I still don’t think I’m tempted, but it’s hypothetical until the Yanks take Cuba off their naughty list again!
@SSS, me too! The Embraer 190 to NCE was indeed nice while it lasted, one of the best for short-haul economy. I am very sad BA has done away with the JFK service from LCY as well as that had been on my to-do list for a while.
We also had Eurowings with a business cabin for that one summer to Palma. Sigh
…or you could go to flightconnections dot com, pick MAN and see all the routes (albeit on the map, not on the list).
@Northern Lass Cuba flights are available on TUI with or without a hotel package 2+2 partial reclining seats in premium for around £450 extra
I still don’t think I’m tempted, but it’s hypothetical until the Yanks take Cuba off their naughty list again!
@SSS, me too! The Embraer 190 to NCE was indeed nice while it lasted, one of the best for short-haul economy. I am very sad BA has done away with the JFK service from LCY as well as that had been on my to-do list for a while.
I’m informed by my neighbour that used it last month that passports aren’t stamped on arrival or departure.
…or you could go to flightconnections dot com, pick MAN and see all the routes (albeit on the map, not on the list).
That doesn’t generate collective musing on the list 😉
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