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Post by eye2eye5 on Jan 16, 2022 19:47:39 GMT 1
I wouldn’t like the runway to be extended, I would like to see an increase in traffic first, Would love to see if the airport management could attract Ryanair or Easyjet to add an extra based aircraft each (we have been told at our station it’s 6 based aircraft till the end of May then it is 7 from June to September subject to change) i would love the airport to spend millions (which they don’t have) on demolishing the easyjet end of the airport first and building proper boarding gates, they are in a dire state, Gate 10 keeps leaking when it rains and there are buckets all over the gate, you should see the passengers reaction when they are arriving at the gate, it is quite embarrassing as a fellow airport worker, Gate 11 had to be closed a while back cause the roof had started to fall in on itself. would also like to see the same done to the main apron gates. The arrivals area ALWAYS bottle necks when 2 or 3 planes come down at once, and they are all congregating by the taxi rank. What the airports needs right now is to start bouncing back up to 5.0m a year but who knows when that will be. hopefully the new Lufthansa route does well, but we are still not out of the pandemic and who knows how many will actually use this new route. we will on here hope it does well and is here to stay. Thanks for the update on the based easyJet position frlpl91. That’s a good step in the right direction.
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Post by Samba on Jan 16, 2022 19:51:46 GMT 1
I dropped my daughter off on Friday morning at Ringway for a shuttle and then a connection to Lax, £5 for 5 minutes, that's disgusting, support your local airport when this is all over. Bob.
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Post by vanguard on Jan 16, 2022 19:54:27 GMT 1
What gets me is the lack of challenge around the patently false narrative from the likes of Save Oglet Shore. Nothing in the plans limits access or sees development anywhere near Oglet shore, and the idea it’s some rural idyll is laughable. I suspect many people commenting in the article haven’t been to Oglet in years. The artical says "it was known to be a favoured childhood setting of Sir Paul McCartney" i would like to know When was the last time he went there for a walk?.
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Post by 8arail on Jan 16, 2022 22:51:01 GMT 1
What gets me is the lack of challenge around the patently false narrative from the likes of Save Oglet Shore. Nothing in the plans limits access or sees development anywhere near Oglet shore, and the idea it’s some rural idyll is laughable. I suspect many people commenting in the article haven’t been to Oglet in years. The artical says "it was known to be a favoured childhood setting of Sir Paul McCartney" i would like to know When was the last time he went there for a walk?.
A clue is in the initial statement, so we can safely say it was over 60 years ago!
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Post by optimum1878 on Jan 17, 2022 14:34:15 GMT 1
Richard Kemp has always been against the airport even existing. He was at the forefront of trying to get it closed in the 70's and 80's. The man talks utter rubbish and needs to get his facts straight. Probably has shares in MAN !! If it were up to Kemp,the whole city wouldnt have anything,total moron.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2022 15:26:39 GMT 1
The artical says "it was known to be a favoured childhood setting of Sir Paul McCartney" i would like to know When was the last time he went there for a walk?.
A clue is in the initial statement, so we can safely say it was over 60 years ago! I'm old enough to remember Oglet shore when it was little more than a dump. I used to play down there sometimes with other local kids, but it was muddy and full of junk, some of it from old ships. This would be the late 1950s. OK, I recognise that it has been tidied up now and also that the river (thankfully) is less polluted, but I can't help but think that people are looking at it through rose-tinted spectacles. I cite this link as an example: linkI have a copy of the book 'Many Years from Now' and whilst there is a mention of Paul McCartney cycling to the lighthouse at Hale when he lived in Speke, there is no mention of Oglet. I was at school with Paul McCartney and I have met him on a number of occasions since, when we have talked about our teenage years and living in the area. The cycle rides to Hale came up several times - I used to do the same, but never Oglet, as such.
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Post by vanguard on Jan 17, 2022 17:11:02 GMT 1
It was also called the "cast iron shore",I to played down there,sometimes on the wrecks and the MUD,enough said 🤐
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Post by pgreeny007 on Jan 17, 2022 22:22:58 GMT 1
I dropped my daughter off on Friday morning at Ringway for a shuttle and then a connection to Lax, £5 for 5 minutes, that's disgusting, support your local airport when this is all over. Bob. Don’t most airports charge around £4-£5 to drop off?
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Post by ametyst on Jan 17, 2022 23:13:14 GMT 1
Drop off/pick up charge at Liverpool airport is £4 for 10 minutes. Alternatively, there is a free drop off/pick up point (free for 40 minutes) a 400m walk from the terminal.
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Post by robaero on Jan 18, 2022 14:17:30 GMT 1
The Airport today 18th of January is having a jobs fair between 10-4pm. You have to go into the Terminal building by the area that was the information desk and you be able to get information about the event at that location.
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Post by kevmul on Jan 27, 2022 0:40:03 GMT 1
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Post by mokum1 on Jan 27, 2022 9:21:32 GMT 1
the people who made this city great must be spinning in their graves as this collection of brainless puppets drive another nail into the citys coffin.the opportunity is there to expand the airport with new technology on aircraft being more green friendly than ever.get them to look at schiphol which is continually expanding but hand in hand with the environment.no other city in uk will sacrifice their airport for a few brownie points on the green board,certainly not manchester who must be laughing out loud at this debacle.manchester ,a city with a fantastic tram network .....we couldn't even build one line due to said council !
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Post by andyh on Jan 27, 2022 10:18:20 GMT 1
I doubt any airport operator is laughing at the minute.
Protests over the local plan won’t stop anything. The adopted plan passed by the Council includes policies around airport expansion and protects land accordingly. It’s neither for nor against expansion. As ever, any physical growth will require planning consent - that’s the point people who object can make representations - as can people who support the proposals.
And just because people care about a particular issue passionately (in this instance the environment - or arguably aviation!) doesn’t make them loonies.
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Post by Samba on Jan 27, 2022 10:40:30 GMT 1
This airport has given valuable employment to many many local people over the years, I'm off for a while ,the comments on the board are getting very political, after all it is an Enthusiast website for Aviation enthusiasts.
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Post by optimum1878 on Jan 31, 2022 14:09:24 GMT 1
The Manchester Echo still at it today,doing their utmost to make people think everybody is against Airport expansion,disgrace to think that this tabloid is supposed to be our local newspaper,everything they are reporting is total nonesense,Manchester has had a monumental expansion on one of its 3 terminals,built without a whimper from the MEN,total anti bias toward Liverpool,a lot more of the public are behind future development of our airport,their codswallop story is all one sided.
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