CURRENTnews
27th March
2005:
GB
Airways revised
timings on their Manchester to Malaga service.
GT6829 arr
1320 GT6828 dept 1515 daily
Jet2 began daily service to Alicante from
Manchester
CSA
Czech Airlines increased
frequency on their Manchester to Prague service with an additional 4 flights
per week. The timings for the new
services are as follows:
OK642 arr
1125 OK643 dept 1225 Mon, Thurs, Fri and Sun
Flybe commenced daily services from Liverpool
to Edinburgh and Glasgow.
LOT
Polish Airlines
increased capacity on their Manchester-Warsaw services by introducing EMB170s.
Wizzair revised their Liverpool to Katowice
services:
W6105 arr
1815 W6106 dept 1905 Mon, Wed, Fri and Sun
easyJet revised their Liverpool to Berlin
services, with the service to be operated by A319s:
U24557 arr
1525 U24558 dept 1550 daily
Monarch restarted their Manchester to Palma
service.
Belavia is expected to operate a weekly
Manchester to Minsk service from 6th June to 29th August using 737s.
26th March
2005:
Wizzair ceased their Liverpool to Budapest
service.
23rd March
2005:
Euromanx began operating on the Isle of Man to
Southampton sector: 2 flights per day Monday to Friday, daily on Saturday and
Sunday.
GB Airways
announced that they are to drop winter services to Las Palmas and Arrecife from
Manchester. The tentative timetable for
the winter is as follows:
Time SMTWTFS Flight to/from destination
0015 --a-a—- GT6823 from Malta
0105 a—a---a GT6825 from Tenerife
0715 -d-d--- GT6834 to Funchal
0730 d-d-ddd GT6828 to Malaga
1410 a-a-aaa GT6829 from Malaga
1525 –-d--dd GT6824 to Tenerife
1540 -a-a--- GT6835 from Funchal
1640 –d-d--- GT6822 to Malta
21st March
2005:
airBaltic recommenced their services from Manchester to Riga. The timetable is as follows:
BT671 arr
1300 BT672 dept 1350 Mon, Weds and Fri
19th March
2005:
Jet2 began operating daily services to Nice,
Valencia and Venice from Manchester.
18th March
2005:
GB
Airways commenced
operations to Malaga from Manchester:
GT6829 arr
1415, GT6828 dept 1515 daily except Weds and Thurs.
17th March
2005:
Astraeus
is to commence a weekly
scheduled service from Manchester to Sharm El Sheikh from April 2005.
15th March
2005:
Indian
Airlines has applied
to fly to Manchester on a three weekly basis from December 2005. The city to which they intend to serve is
not known but will probably be Mumbai.
14th March
2005:
Hellas
Jet announce an
increase in frequency in the Manchester to Athens service with an extra weekly
flight and alter the timings to the morning.
13th March
2005:
easyJet services from Liverpool to Berlin and
Geneva are to be operated by A319s during the summer.
Air
Berlin is to
reduce frequency on the Manchester to Berlin route from late April 2005.
American
Airlines will
reintroduce their Manchester to Miami service from November 2005.
11th March
2005:
Air
Sahara is rumoured to be beginning flights from
Mumbai to Manchester from November using 767s.
10th March
2005:
bmi
is expected to change aircraft type on
their Manchester to Washington service from mid-May, with the introduction of
Icelandair 757s (subject to approval).
An A330 will be based at Heathrow operating to Riyadh and Mumbai.
Jet2 has brought forward and revised it’s
planned reduction of services on the Manchester to Budapest service. The flights will now operate from Thursday
to Sunday from May 1st.
8th March
2005:
SriLankan
Airlines may start
to consider services from Colombo to Manchester after they revealed that they
are to service Heathrow twice daily from this summer: they had previously
stated that this was one of their pre-requisites before considering Manchester
services.
7th March
2005:
Continental
Airlines confirm a
2nd Manchester-New York (Newark) service starting 10th June with this service
operating all year.
British Airways is to reduce frequency on services
from Manchester to Dusseldorf, Southampton and Stuttgart.
Air France is to change aircraft type on one of
their Manchester-Paris services with the introduction of ERJ145s replacing 737s
from April 1st.
GB Airways is to introduce 2 services per week
between Manchester and Funchal from November.
5th March
2005:
Virgin
Atlantic is to
operate additional services from Manchester to Orlando in November 2005.
4th March
2005:
USAirways is to change aircraft type on their
daily services between Manchester and Philadelphia from A330s to 767s until
19th March due to damaging an A330 during the previous week.
Continental
Airlines is rumoured
to be adding a 2nd Manchester-New York (Newark) service starting 10th June, for
approximately 3 months. Both this and the existing service are expected to be
using 757s fitted with winglets. The new service timings are:
CO100 arr 0955 CO101 dept 1330
25th
February 2005:
Ryanair began daily services from Liverpool to Bergamo.
FR4537
arr 1515 FR4538 dept 1540
SkyEurope is to suspend the introduction of Manchester to Warsaw services due to a dispute with Warsaw Airport
21st
February 2005:
Estonian
Air have
confirmed that they will operate an additional weekly service to Tallinn from
Manchester during the summer.
Virgin
Atlantic is
rumoured to be starting a weekly Manchester-Barbados service from November
2005.
14th
February 2005:
Jet2 began operating a three times daily
service to Edinburgh from Manchester.
10th
February 2005:
Flybe commenced an up to 3 times daily
Liverpool to Belfast City service.
Jet2 began operating a three times daily
service to Amsterdam from Manchester.
2nd
November 2004:
BWIA revise their planned changes to their
Port of Spain to Manchester (via Barbados) services; services are to be altered
from 20th March.
5th
February 2005:
Air
Jamaica withdrew
their services to Kingston and Montego Bay from Manchester.
4th
February 2005:
Jet2 began operating a daily service to
Malaga from Manchester.
31st
January 2005:
Euromanx is reported to be introducing services to Manchester and
Bristol from the Isle of Man according to newspaper reports in the Isle of Man.
Lufthansa is expected to increase capacity from on their Manchester to
Frankfurt service by introducing A321s on two of their daily services whilst
their are also expected to change type on their Manchester to Munich services
to RJ85s.
Alitalia is expected to use MD82s on the Manchester-Milan sector.
British
Airways is
to reduce frequency on the Manchester to Oslo service to daily but are to use
RJ100s 6 times per week, Manchester-Milan services will see a reduction in
capacity with ERJ145s expected to operate the morning service, and similarly
services to Vienna from Manchester will revert to ERJ145s whilst they are going
to maintain a daily service from Manchester to Rome instead of operating 12
times per week for the summer as in the previous two years. All these changes are expected from 28th
March 2005.
30th
January 2005:
Syrianair is thought to be increasing frequency on their Manchester-Damascus
service to 4 times per week.
28th
January 2005:
Ryanair began daily services from Liverpool to Rome.
FR9643 arr
1915 FR9644 dept 1940
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