Manchester Airport. How can it be so bad?

[GreatGranny]

My daughter has just taken off from Manchester T3 to Madrid for a few days.

Got an email saying get there 3 hours early which she did. Good job as it took 1 1/2 hours to get through security at about 7:30am.

Party in front of her had a flight in 50 minutes and had to be fast tracked through to make their flight.

She was in departures at about 9am, flight at 10:15 so plenty of time.

T3 only been open for 2 weeks I think.

[Ronstein]

Pondlife like this flying from Manchester probably doesn't help

https://twitter.com/MayaWilkinsonx/status/15221846...

[r6blacky]

Ronstein said:

Pondlife like this flying from Manchester probably doesn't help

https://twitter.com/MayaWilkinsonx/status/15221846...

What the hell is wrong with people? How can getting on a plane lead to something like that.

[GreatGranny]

Ronstein said:

Pondlife like this flying from Manchester probably doesn't help

https://twitter.com/MayaWilkinsonx/status/15221846...

Not just Manchester.

She arrived unscathed and no fist fights or Karen's on the flight.
Must be a better class of passenger heading to Madrid

[DJMC]

We're flying out of Manchester to Florida in a few weeks, Saturday 1.30pm so need to be there 10.30am.

Flying TUI Premium which (allegedly) gives us:

- Fast-track through security in the UK
- Airport lounge access in the UK
- Priority boarding
- Premium Arrival Service - be among the first to leave the aircraft with our Priority Disembarkation

Could anyone who's flown TUI Premium out of Manchester recently report on how easy/difficult their experience was please?

Thanks.

[Muppet007]

Similar, flying out of Manchester at the end of the month to Oslo and have fast track passport and security. Does it make any difference?

How far is T1 parking from T2?
Depart from T1 but land back at T2

[PushedDover]

7am Flight to Greece in the morning tomorrow - T1 Manchester.

Luck needed ....

[snuffy]

Manchester Airport tells travellers when to arrive to reduce queuing:

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-new...

Seems maybe they have finally worked out that everyone getting at the same time causes a huge bottleneck ?

[RamraiderVVC]

I flew from Manchester, only once mind!

It was very cheap, so we thought we would give it a go to compare with our normal London airports.
Quite and eye opener for many reasons!

Funniest bit of the day was ordering an 'All day breakfast' and then being told that that stops at 11am! LOL
The chap working there stood rock solid whilst we rolled around with laughter.

The plane had the worst rattle I have ever known as well.

Never again!

[DJMC]

To be fair, we've preferred to fly from Manchester in the past, perhaps 15 times to Florida, and have never experienced any issues.

It's seems to be down to Covid that the recent problems have occurred.

I guess other airports had a better strategy on staffing.

[Shnozz]

DJMC said:

To be fair, we've preferred to fly from Manchester in the past, perhaps 15 times to Florida, and have never experienced any issues.

It's seems to be down to Covid that the recent problems have occurred.

I guess other airports had a better strategy on staffing.

And to be fair, I have always found Manchester airport dogste.

[paulguitar]

Shnozz said:

DJMC said:

To be fair, we've preferred to fly from Manchester in the past, perhaps 15 times to Florida, and have never experienced any issues.

It's seems to be down to Covid that the recent problems have occurred.

I guess other airports had a better strategy on staffing.

And to be fair, I have always found Manchester airport dogste.

It's worse than ever at present, but it's been consistently terrible since I started using it regularly 20 or so years ago. The design of the place is farcical. Up and down stairs and lifts repeatedly. Car parks miles from terminals. It's just ridiculous.

[Shnozz]

paulguitar said:

Shnozz said:

DJMC said:

To be fair, we've preferred to fly from Manchester in the past, perhaps 15 times to Florida, and have never experienced any issues.

It's seems to be down to Covid that the recent problems have occurred.

I guess other airports had a better strategy on staffing.

And to be fair, I have always found Manchester airport dogste.

It's worse than ever at present, but it's been consistently terrible since I started using it regularly 20 or so years ago. The design of the place is farcical. Up and down stairs and lifts repeatedly. Car parks miles from terminals. It's just ridiculous.

I came back from Denmark last Sunday to MAN. Horrid experience once again and vowed it WILL be my last time.

[snuffy]

RamraiderVVC said:

Funniest bit of the day was ordering an 'All day breakfast' and then being told that that stops at 11am! LOL
The chap working there stood rock solid whilst we rolled around with laughter.

I bet the poor sod gets mightily knobbed off having to tell people that !

[snuffy]

The thing is, they have you over a barrel and they know it. You can't really take your business elsewhere (ok, you could I suppose, but in reality it's not going to happen).

For us, we are closer to LIverpool airport than to Manchester. I always look at available flights to where we went to go to from Liverpool and I know what I'm going to find, and I always find it: None.

Hence having to use Manchester. In reality you have two choices; take it or leave it. At the moment, we are choosing to leave it.

[Imasurv]

Muppet007 said:

Similar, flying out of Manchester at the end of the month to Oslo and have fast track passport and security. Does it make any difference?

How far is T1 parking from T2?
Depart from T1 but land back at T2

I’d probably allow 15-20 mins.

[Shnozz]

snuffy said:

The thing is, they have you over a barrel and they know it. You can't really take your business elsewhere (ok, you could I suppose, but in reality it's not going to happen).

For us, we are closer to LIverpool airport than to Manchester. I always look at available flights to where we went to go to from Liverpool and I know what I'm going to find, and I always find it: None.

Hence having to use Manchester. In reality you have two choices; take it or leave it. At the moment, we are choosing to leave it.

Yes and no. I can transfer via schiphol to get to Denmark and fly via Leeds. I will be doing so in future.

[Boringvolvodriver]

It’s not just Manchester.

Flew out of Leeds Bradford today 820 flight and arrived 540. Check In quick but queue for security horrendous as only 2 out of 4 scanners manned. Not helped by a lot of flights leaving between 6 and 8. Took until 750 to get through and that’s with fast track,

Jet 2 staff were ensuring that people were going through for the first flights and made sure all got the plane, unlike Ryan Air. Some people did miss their flights with RA.

According to Jet 2 staff(who were brilliant) the airport made all staff redundant during pandemic times and are struggling to get new staff approved and trained. Apparently staff were on zero hours contracts.

At Budapest, had to wait 30 mins for steps to get off plane and bags were also a long wait due to staff shortages so not just the U.K.However passport control was quick with plenty of staff.

[98elise]

r6blacky said:

Ronstein said:

Pondlife like this flying from Manchester probably doesn't help

https://twitter.com/MayaWilkinsonx/status/15221846...

What the hell is wrong with people? How can getting on a plane lead to something like that.

According to the thread the "victim" was being kicked off the plane (also on video) for being racially abusive to other passengers. I suspect that's what started the fight.

[Carl_Manchester]

Boringvolvodriver said:

It’s not just Manchester.

According to the rankings list posted by the telegraph last week, Leeds Bradford is the worst airport in the UK or, at least that's how I remember the table.

For those asking about fast track at MAN, it does not guarantee that you actually move fast. Families (like myself) with babies and disabled get automatically fast tracked and you can also be extremely unlucky if they rubber glove these groups in front of you and do a deep check on their hand luggage.