Manchester Airport. How can it be so bad?

[anonymous-user]

Goa'uld said:

Swervin_Mervin said:

Due to fly out of Man soon and it's a morning departure so expecting it to be awful.

Is it worth doing the twilight bag drop-off in anyone's experience? I try and avoid having to park there these days at all so no idea what the current state of play is - am I going to get stiffed for parking if I do this?

Day before drop off went well for us.

My wife dropped me off at Terminal T2 and I grabbed a trolley to take all the cases in, that cost her £6 to drive out. Then she picked me up at the east car park under T2 for another £6. Best £12 ever spent as we waltzed by huge checkin queues the next morning.

Pal did this last week and worked well.
The kids are doing it this week.

The only downside is the parking scam that is Manchester Airport

[PushedDover]

And bag drop off is a fecking nonsense if one lives 1h50m away.
Shame they can’t get their stbtogether

[Swervin_Mervin]

speedyguy said:

Goa'uld said:

Swervin_Mervin said:

Due to fly out of Man soon and it's a morning departure so expecting it to be awful.

Is it worth doing the twilight bag drop-off in anyone's experience? I try and avoid having to park there these days at all so no idea what the current state of play is - am I going to get stiffed for parking if I do this?

Day before drop off went well for us.

My wife dropped me off at Terminal T2 and I grabbed a trolley to take all the cases in, that cost her £6 to drive out. Then she picked me up at the east car park under T2 for another £6. Best £12 ever spent as we waltzed by huge checkin queues the next morning.

Pal did this last week and worked well.
The kids are doing it this week.

The only downside is the parking scam that is Manchester Airport

Cheers guys. I am sorely tempted, esprcially as we're only 10mins away. Wife could nip to the Costa down the road. It's that sense of a lack of control that nags though!

[anonymous-user]

Swervin_Mervin said:

speedyguy said:

Goa'uld said:

Swervin_Mervin said:

Due to fly out of Man soon and it's a morning departure so expecting it to be awful.

Is it worth doing the twilight bag drop-off in anyone's experience? I try and avoid having to park there these days at all so no idea what the current state of play is - am I going to get stiffed for parking if I do this?

Day before drop off went well for us.

My wife dropped me off at Terminal T2 and I grabbed a trolley to take all the cases in, that cost her £6 to drive out. Then she picked me up at the east car park under T2 for another £6. Best £12 ever spent as we waltzed by huge checkin queues the next morning.

Pal did this last week and worked well.
The kids are doing it this week.

The only downside is the parking scam that is Manchester Airport

Cheers guys. I am sorely tempted, esprcially as we're only 10mins away. Wife could nip to the Costa down the road. It's that sense of a lack of control that nags though!

Kids dropped theirs off early this evening, in and out within 10 mins, said the place was empty.

I'll be back there in a few hours, twice tomorrow the parking joke is just a wallet spanking exercise.

The amount of people dropping off in all sort of 'dodgy' places now is mental and all because the airport put £££££ above safety and 'customer experience' riddled with a load of lies and bull as to the reasoning.

[PushedDover]

Airport Parking is bullst.

Tell me. Why should it cost more to park a car that has not been booked in advance versus one that has?

The actual 'cost' does not change, they just fk you because they can.
(example is an empty Teesside airport. £15 if pre-booked. £30 if not.)

[anonymous-user]

Absolutely rammed at Skanchester airport T2 drop offs an hour ago, it was like the bloody 'Arc de Triomphe' roundabout at rush hour.
Compounded by 3 fire engines rocking up and causing mayhem.

[Blown2CV]

at this point i am pretty confused as to why more people aren't cancelling their holiday plans involving any kind of flight.

[vaud]

Blown2CV said:

at this point i am pretty confused as to why more people aren't cancelling their holiday plans involving any kind of flight.

Because they are non-refundable and a family holiday could easily be £3-5k?

[Monkeylegend]

vaud said:

Blown2CV said:

at this point i am pretty confused as to why more people aren't cancelling their holiday plans involving any kind of flight.

Because they are non-refundable and a family holiday could easily be £3-5k?

I can understand why people might not want to cancel, but I don't understand why anyone would want to book a holiday for the next few months with all the current issues.

The further away from an airport I am the better as far as I am concerned.

Add to that the sunbed Olympics when you get to your resort and you have all the ingredients of a nightmare holiday.

Edited by Monkeylegend on Friday 15th July 10:17

[popeyewhite]

Monkeylegend said:

I can understand why people might not want to cancel, but I don't understand why anyone would want to book a holiday for the next few months with all the current issues.

Less than 2% of flights are affected at MAN, security is generally no worse than ever. What other current issues are so pressing they would prevent someone from booking a holiday?

[Monkeylegend]

popeyewhite said:

Monkeylegend said:

I can understand why people might not want to cancel, but I don't understand why anyone would want to book a holiday for the next few months with all the current issues.

Less than 2% of flights are affected at MAN, security is generally no worse than ever. What other current issues are so pressing they would prevent someone from booking a holiday?

Just read the news and you will see. Heathrow are in the news again this week telling airlines not to take too many bookings,, much to the airlines displeasure.

[popeyewhite]

Monkeylegend said:

popeyewhite said:

Monkeylegend said:

I can understand why people might not want to cancel, but I don't understand why anyone would want to book a holiday for the next few months with all the current issues.

Less than 2% of flights are affected at MAN, security is generally no worse than ever. What other current issues are so pressing they would prevent someone from booking a holiday?

Just read the news and you will see. Heathrow are in the news again this week telling airlines not to take too many bookings,, much to the airlines displeasure.

Yes I've seen that, and I'm aware BA, TUI and Easyjet may be the ones to be cautious with, but really a huge amount of flights are completely unaffected.

[Blown2CV]

vaud said:

Blown2CV said:

at this point i am pretty confused as to why more people aren't cancelling their holiday plans involving any kind of flight.

Because they are non-refundable and a family holiday could easily be £3-5k?

Pretty sure they will be refundable.

[Blown2CV]

popeyewhite said:

Monkeylegend said:

I can understand why people might not want to cancel, but I don't understand why anyone would want to book a holiday for the next few months with all the current issues.

Less than 2% of flights are affected at MAN, security is generally no worse than ever. What other current issues are so pressing they would prevent someone from booking a holiday?

It’s a nonsense stat that. There are many ways the experience can be shat all over other than the one metric that went into that percentage.

[vaud]

Blown2CV said:

Pretty sure they will be refundable.

Take TUI as a first off the shelf refund policy:

70 days or more before travel: Loss of full deposit
69 - 63 days before travel: 30% of total booking price
62 - 49 days before travel: 50% of total booking price
48 - 29 days before travel: 70% of total booking price
28 - 15 days before travel: 90% of total booking price
14 - 0 days before travel: 100% of total booking price

[Monkeylegend]

popeyewhite said:

Yes I've seen that, and I'm aware BA, TUI and Easyjet may be the ones to be cautious with, but really a huge amount of flights are completely unaffected.

The trouble is though that it does not stop the issues we are seeing with queues to even get into the airports, check in and security, "loss" of baggage, flights being cancelled when people are at airports, even on planes getting ready to take off, diversions to other airports, people being stuck on planes unable to get off, big queues for refreshments, at immigration etc, even though many flights themselves are still going.

Not to mention rising prices for the privilege and the seeming inability of airline and airports to have anybody there to help and pass on information.

Who in their right mind would willingly sign up for this to then have to get up at 06.00 every day to reserve a sunbed

[WCZ]

vaud said:

Take TUI as a first off the shelf refund policy:

70 days or more before travel: Loss of full deposit
69 - 63 days before travel: 30% of total booking price
62 - 49 days before travel: 50% of total booking price
48 - 29 days before travel: 70% of total booking price
28 - 15 days before travel: 90% of total booking price
14 - 0 days before travel: 100% of total booking price

strange, I would have thought it'd be the other way round as the closer it is to the date the less likely they'll be able to sell the canceled slot to someone else

[vaud]

WCZ said:

strange, I would have thought it'd be the other way round as the closer it is to the date the less likely they'll be able to sell the canceled slot to someone else

Sorry I quoted out of context; it is the amount the customer has to pay in fees to cancel.

[Shnozz]

Anyone have any info for Sunday flying 2pm?

In-laws are departing for Copenhagen and with trains st on a Sunday I am driving them to the airport. They want to be there about 11:30. No check in luggage but had suggested they might want to allow a little more time for security alone.

[Blown2CV]

vaud said:

Blown2CV said:

Pretty sure they will be refundable.

Take TUI as a first off the shelf refund policy:

70 days or more before travel: Loss of full deposit
69 - 63 days before travel: 30% of total booking price
62 - 49 days before travel: 50% of total booking price
48 - 29 days before travel: 70% of total booking price
28 - 15 days before travel: 90% of total booking price
14 - 0 days before travel: 100% of total booking price

what about changing the dates?