Manchester Airport. How can it be so bad?
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JoeRRS said:
Anyone flown into Manchester the last few days? If so what were the delays like for baggage etc?
Flying in tomorrow after a far too long trip away and got a train (hopefully not cancelled) 2 hours after I should arrive!!
Baggage delays of between 90 mins - 2 hours being reported. Good luck.Flying in tomorrow after a far too long trip away and got a train (hopefully not cancelled) 2 hours after I should arrive!!
We had just under 3hr wait for the luggage conveyor to come on yesterday afternoon - evening.
Very frustrating, lots of staff couldn't offer any answers or commit to even estimates when luggage would appear. Particularly bad as the two flights waiting for luggage when I was there had returned from Lapland, lots of young children in an area not designed for people to be stuck for hours.
This was T2.
Very frustrating, lots of staff couldn't offer any answers or commit to even estimates when luggage would appear. Particularly bad as the two flights waiting for luggage when I was there had returned from Lapland, lots of young children in an area not designed for people to be stuck for hours.
This was T2.
Tickle said:
We had just under 3hr wait for the luggage conveyor to come on yesterday afternoon - evening.
Very frustrating, lots of staff couldn't offer any answers or commit to even estimates when luggage would appear. Particularly bad as the two flights waiting for luggage when I was there had returned from Lapland, lots of young children in an area not designed for people to be stuck for hours.
This was T2.
That’s absolutely awful.Very frustrating, lots of staff couldn't offer any answers or commit to even estimates when luggage would appear. Particularly bad as the two flights waiting for luggage when I was there had returned from Lapland, lots of young children in an area not designed for people to be stuck for hours.
This was T2.
deckster said:
surveyor said:
Blown2CV said:
border controls staff are on strike i think.
not yet.Hard to believe that an airport the size of Manchester can't get baggage a few 100m in an acceptable time, or at least mitigate the problem ASAP once it has happened originally.
T2 is all shiny and new but apparently the baggage system isn't quite as good as expected. Plus they don't have the staff.
We flew out of T2 on Saturday 10th, the morning they closed the runway and diverted incoming planes. There was less than an inch of snow - it barely covered anything. We got the bus out to the plane around 845 in 100% full-grip safety, then got taken back to the terminal again and were told the runway was closed until 12 because snow. By about 11 all we could see outside the terminal was slush and wet tarmac. Some planes did decide to take off around 1130 so they must have reopened it at that point. We boarded about 2.5 hours late and then had to wait another hour for the f-ing de-icing truck because the north-facing righthand wing still had an inch wide strip of snow at the end of it next to the vertical wing tip where the sun hadn't caught it. Delayed 4 hours in total.
How planes operate in countries with more than 25.4mm of slush I have no idea.
We flew out of T2 on Saturday 10th, the morning they closed the runway and diverted incoming planes. There was less than an inch of snow - it barely covered anything. We got the bus out to the plane around 845 in 100% full-grip safety, then got taken back to the terminal again and were told the runway was closed until 12 because snow. By about 11 all we could see outside the terminal was slush and wet tarmac. Some planes did decide to take off around 1130 so they must have reopened it at that point. We boarded about 2.5 hours late and then had to wait another hour for the f-ing de-icing truck because the north-facing righthand wing still had an inch wide strip of snow at the end of it next to the vertical wing tip where the sun hadn't caught it. Delayed 4 hours in total.
How planes operate in countries with more than 25.4mm of slush I have no idea.
The issue is that the baggage handling system is highly automated inside the terminal, and then, the final bit, i.e. getting the bags to/from and on/off the plane itself, requires a load of gadgies and some little tucks the resemble very large shopping trolleys. Then it all goes to s
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te.Whistle said:
We landed at Manchester at about 21:00 on Saturday we only had hand luggage.
From arriving in the terminal T2 to getting in the car on the east carpark took all of 12 minutes.
No problems at all.
Same here coming back into T1 last Tuesday - 5 minutes watching people struggling at the automated passport scanners was the only delay. From arriving in the terminal T2 to getting in the car on the east carpark took all of 12 minutes.
No problems at all.
The trick is hand luggage only.
andy43 said:
Whistle said:
We landed at Manchester at about 21:00 on Saturday we only had hand luggage.
From arriving in the terminal T2 to getting in the car on the east carpark took all of 12 minutes.
No problems at all.
Same here coming back into T1 last Tuesday - 5 minutes watching people struggling at the automated passport scanners was the only delay. From arriving in the terminal T2 to getting in the car on the east carpark took all of 12 minutes.
No problems at all.
The trick is hand luggage only.
Sheepshanks said:
andy43 said:
Whistle said:
We landed at Manchester at about 21:00 on Saturday we only had hand luggage.
From arriving in the terminal T2 to getting in the car on the east carpark took all of 12 minutes.
No problems at all.
Same here coming back into T1 last Tuesday - 5 minutes watching people struggling at the automated passport scanners was the only delay. From arriving in the terminal T2 to getting in the car on the east carpark took all of 12 minutes.
No problems at all.
The trick is hand luggage only.
Flew out of T2 yesterday. When we boarded the aircraft, we then had to sit on the stand for a further 75 minutes as there were no ground crew available to actually load the baggage onto the plane. The Lithuanian captain actually broadcasted publicly that the situation at Manchester was ridiculous. When we finally pushed back, we were into a sizeable queue of other departing aircraft and arrived at our destination just over 2 hours late.
Before boarding, we went for a drink at one of the new ‘nice’ bars in the newly refurbished terminal - there were 4 staff on and it wasn’t very busy (20% full in terms of bums on seats at the very most). We were sitting at the bar and had heard a few people ask to order a draught Moretti but being told by the various bar staff that they’d run out. A little while later, a chap who’d tried to order one previously asked if the Moretti would be back on any time soon as his flight had been delayed and was in for a long wait and he enjoyed it more than the Amstel that was also on draught. The manager told him that the there was plenty of Moretti in stock but it’s stored 4 floors below and nobody had time to go and bring a barrel up.
I really wish it was easier for me to avoid using the place (and still get away). It surely only survives on the ‘captive audience’ situation along with the determination of people to keep travelling.
Before boarding, we went for a drink at one of the new ‘nice’ bars in the newly refurbished terminal - there were 4 staff on and it wasn’t very busy (20% full in terms of bums on seats at the very most). We were sitting at the bar and had heard a few people ask to order a draught Moretti but being told by the various bar staff that they’d run out. A little while later, a chap who’d tried to order one previously asked if the Moretti would be back on any time soon as his flight had been delayed and was in for a long wait and he enjoyed it more than the Amstel that was also on draught. The manager told him that the there was plenty of Moretti in stock but it’s stored 4 floors below and nobody had time to go and bring a barrel up.
I really wish it was easier for me to avoid using the place (and still get away). It surely only survives on the ‘captive audience’ situation along with the determination of people to keep travelling.
We came back through Mcr last night, landing just after 11pm, had 10 mins getting through passport control as there was a plane that had landed just before us, and our bags were on the carrousel waiting for us. We were off the plane and in our car in about 30 mins. There was a stack of unclaimed cases at the rear of the collection hall though, so not everyone has been as lucky as we were.
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