Inside Manchester New Pier and T2

[bulldog]

Morning everybody. Flew out to Tenerife from Manchester last week. Had to use Man as ever there are no decent flights to Tenerife from Liverpool. Booked a package with TUI , should have been a 737Max so really did not know what we would get to fly out on. So check in an team member apologises that we have been put on an Air Tanker A330. Thought no need to apologise for that. A 737 load on a 300 seater great. Quite odd inside, fully civilianised but crewed by Air Tanker and for all purposes was a civil airline called Air Tanker. Had 4 Tui reps but they didn't actually do much, they just used the Tui trolleys to serve us. Obv couldn't resist opportunity to grab one of the staff guys on board to discuss Air Tanker , so while the cabin waited he showed me loads of his pics that he had recently taken when they went down to the Falklands refuelling Typhoons. 
Anyway after check in we had gate A12. As ever whenever I fly anywhere I always get the gate that is the furthest point from anywhere else in the airport, this time it was the far end of the new pier. (Should say we parked in new West car park which is equally a long walk from what was "old"T2.  I must take a contradictory view to Baldyman re this pier/Terminal , while it is not yet complete and travelators are not in operation it is a very impressive addition to terminal. All photos on i phone (only a 6 !!) so not perfect but judge for yourselves. At the entrance door is advises to leave 12 minutes to your gate.

IMG_5891 by Clive Harden, on Flickr Only ours and a Jet 2 so pretty empty

IMG_5894 by Clive Harden, on Flickr

IMG_5895 by Clive Harden, on Flickr

IMG_5896 by Clive Harden, on FlickrGate areas very wide and spacious

IMG_5900 by Clive Harden, on Flickr

IMG_5901 by Clive Harden, on Flickr

IMG_5902 by Clive Harden, on Flickr External view from our Tanker!

IMG_5904 by Clive Harden, on Flickr The Max dumping ground!

IMG_5914 by Clive Harden, on Flickr Tenerife also has a TUI and a Norwegian Max parked up

IMG_5964 by Clive Harden, Arriving back

IMG_5967 by Clive Harden, on Flickr

IMG_5968 by Clive Harden, on Flickr

IMG_5969 by Clive Harden, on Flickr Nearly there

IMG_5971 by Clive Harden, on Flickr

IMG_5972 by Clive Harden, on Flickr

IMG_5893 by Clive Harden, on Flickr Our Tanker, colour scheme designed by same guy who did Hi Fly

[marpleman]

Interesting pictures.
I worked at the airport (for MAG) for almost three years, leaving last March (2018), so it's interesting to see developments, especially having had first hand knowledge of the re-development.

My line of work has (fortunately) taken me through a few European airports over the last five months (primarily Barcelona, Vienna, Zurich. CDG, Schipol and Nice) and whilst travelling through T1 and T3 at MAN, its obvious how tired the airport has become in comparison to these.

I went through security in T1 last week , via the lanes on the far left at check-in, and it was like the dark ages.

Half the automated gates at passport control in T1 are always out of order.

The "pick up" at T3 is actually a disgrace - a row of disused benches thrown into a cordoned off area of he ground floor of the multi story.
The whole airport has become a car parking cash cow.

At least the pictures above look like the design is back on track, but I do wonder how T1 and 3 will fare when work turns to them in a few years?

Thanks for posting