Emirates to fly the A380 on Manchester route.
Mar 31st 2010, 9:25 pm
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Re: Emirates to fly the A380 on Manchester route.
Are you serious? I often take this flight and the night time one in particular is ALWAYS packed. I must have taken this flight at least 10 times and pretty much every time it heaving. However, this is the major connecting flight for the rest of the world. Lands at around 7am then most people jog on elsewhere. Its a fantastic business decision from Emirates. With only a limited number of business seats I think this service will do very well.
You'd be surprised at how far people travel within the UK to get the Manchester flight.
You'd be surprised at how far people travel within the UK to get the Manchester flight.
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i didn't imply that i myself didn't think this service will be successful. in fact i do think it will be. the point i was making is that the volumes of passengers flying exclusively between man and dxb as origin and destination points make up a small percentage of the number of passengers that will use this route. most travellers on this flight will be connecting to other points so the state of the dubai and uk economy doesn't really have much of an effect on how successful this new service will be.
Apr 1st 2010, 6:55 am
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Re: Emirates to fly the A380 on Manchester route.
....or maybe London......
Apr 1st 2010, 6:58 am
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Re: Emirates to fly the A380 on Manchester route.
Aye lad. Extra room for whippets and flat caps.
Southern, shandy-drinking puffs...
Southern, shandy-drinking puffs...
Apr 1st 2010, 7:00 am
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Re: Emirates to fly the A380 on Manchester route.
Me? A cockney?
You Northern types are so sensitive...
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Apr 1st 2010, 11:56 am
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Re: Emirates to fly the A380 on Manchester route.
It basically equates to an extra 90 seats a day to/from Man these being made up of an extra 34 business seats , 14 first class and the rest economy.
Apr 1st 2010, 2:04 pm
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Re: Emirates to fly the A380 on Manchester route.
Apr 1st 2010, 5:29 pm
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Re: Emirates to fly the A380 on Manchester route.
please dont try to sound knowledgable about something you clearly know very little about. there may or may not be huge vols of traffic between man and dxb, however many passengers will use this service to connect to many other points in africa, the far east, and beyond.
so it's really lovely and clever of you to point out how 'broken' both economies are, however, that piece of info has limited relevance to the launch of this new service.
so it's really lovely and clever of you to point out how 'broken' both economies are, however, that piece of info has limited relevance to the launch of this new service.
Apr 1st 2010, 10:13 pm
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Re: Emirates to fly the A380 on Manchester route.
Manchester-Dubai has the highest business class loads of all the UK routes and you have the high Pakistani transit load from Bradford, W/Yorks.
