Airport News

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Apparently, Manston is today open for CAT 4 business ! Nice one. I hope they can get lots of freight passing through.

Hopefully it won't be too long before they go to CAT 6 and PAX ;D

Good Luck Everyone

[ramprat]

Maybe now MK will come back in

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Hopefully there are a lot of firms including MK that will want to use MSE for cargo.

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Just out of interest.........who is running the cargo side at Manston........is it the same people who were running it before it all went t*ts up

[kingrat]

MK are in talks with Manston so i understand

[jimmy]

apparantly african int are flying in to mse on wed.

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Spotted this on the Pprune.....some chap was commenting on seeing an AN124 going into East Midlands and was it a regular event ?


posted 24th September 2005 14:57
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Yes, going to be quite a frequent event, as EMA is a major OXFAM centre for relief efforts. We have just been planning some IL76 to drop in there, as we can't use the An124 due to destination runway length and ground equipment.

But now Manston has re-opened, we may change back down there as there is less problems with operating stage II aircraft in there.

[dave]

whats with the new parking stands? i've heard they have been changed to 6 instead of the 5 we had for our little a/c. atleast infratil can get this done unlike the reply the old managers used to say.

good on infratil looks like they are doing something to inprove mse, unlike tw@@s b4, just hope it wont be long b4 pax flts come back.

[mattplews]

I was at TG aviation today, Speaking to a man who is friends with someone high in importancein the airport - couldnt get a name - but apparetly there will be an announcement soon as to EASYJET using MSE for PAX flights in the summer season only, also there is a company trying to get flights running from MSE and MAN.

Keep in touch everyone!!

Matt

[karen ticket sales]

hi that sounds great matt fingers crossed and lets hope theres some truth in that and manston takes off big time this time and maybe there will be a few jobs going with any luck. this web site has gone very quiet now hope to see some more messages soon. xxx

[paul]

understand 3 top jobs going from feb 1 seems the new owners have there own ideas

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Mmmm its always a shame when anyone loses a job, are they staff who have been there for a long time ?, being 'outside' the airport now days I get the impression that not a lot of business has been attracted to Manston, its been 6 months and you would have hoped that 'steady' business would be forthcoming by now.

the following is off the Pprune ".........Gossip around the island says that the airport management has been fired by the new owners."

[paul]

apt director
dep apt director
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i think made redundant is the term, hopefully a good package for them

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Taken from the KoS via the Pprune


The county could become a gateway to the United States by
next spring, Kent on Sunday can reveal.

Negotiations are at advanced stages to operate passenger flights between Kent International Airport at Manston and Norfolk, Virginia, on the east coast of the US.

Alex King, deputy leader of Kent County Council, told KoS: “Although nothing is yet settled, we think there is a high probability that it will go ahead.” And he emphasised KCC was using no public subsidies to help the operation get off the ground. He added: “I am hopeful that there will be flights to the US out of Kent and vice versa by the beginning of April or May next year.”

The timing could prove crucial if the county is to capitalise on two major American celebrations. First, there is the 400th anniversary of the first American colony at Jamestown, also in Virginia. Many of the first settlers were from Kent, and KCC has taken an active role in promoting a series of celebrations, planning for which are already well under way – both here and in the US. And Kent is the first English county to be invited to attend the major Smithsonian Folklife Festival in the centre of Washington DC in the Summer of 2007, as a result of its participation in Virginia. Some one and a half million people visit the 10-day festival that includes the 4th of July – America’s big holiday. More than 100 Kent businesses have so far expressed a serious interest in taking up the invitation to attend the festival, which will also feature a mix of arts, crafts and culture.

Mr King said he believed there was a lot of mileage to be made from the 2007 celebrations, “not only in terms of tourism, but in the longer term trade relationships across the Atlantic, using Kent as a gate-way to Europe and the US respectively”.

He predicted the flights to Kent would prove popular with American tourists, who would be on the doorstep to Europe from Manston. “There is a big NATO base in Norfolk, Virginia, and there is already a significant number of people travelling every week between there and the NATO base in Belgium,” said Mr King. “This is a regular opportunity for quite a few passengers every week.”

An official at Norfolk International confirmed to KoS he expected “some key decisions would be made during the next week”. The airport offers more than 200 arrivals and departures daily to major cities throughout the US, serving almost 3.8 million passengers in 2004. Mr King said: “There is now a lot of work to be done in terms of getting people on both sides of the pond together to finance the project and make it happen. “That is already happening in Virginia and will begin to happen here.”

A spokesman for Kent International Airport said: “Details of individual discussions are commercially confidential, but we would naturally be delighted to explore the opportunity of such flights.”

[paul]

it must have been a full moon when this was written in KOS