Originally Posted by
navylad
As someone who lives MAN and works central LON, I'm looking forward to the LCY hop on a Sunday evening, Door to door in 90 minutes will beat the train, although the lack of frequency means the majority of my flights may be LHR-MAN/MAN-LCY. Any news on the TP for club yet?
Good question. In terms of distance these are the ones over 1000 miles. As
noted elsewhere there are routes above 1100 miles which are not short haul+, so the threshold is not a definitive distance. The longest (when it starts this summer) on 40 TPs will be Brindisi (BDS) at 1139 which just pips the previous longest of Palermo (PMO) at 1128.
MAN JMK 1,717 mi
MAN ALC 1,044 mi
MAN IBZ 1,015 mi
MAN AGP 1,157 mi
TPs not loaded in the calculator yet, and usually for new routes they are added a lot closer to the start date. Of the above I think the only ones with a chance of getting 80 J each way are AGP and JMK. Tbh I suspect JMK could get 80, but I wouldn't be surprised if it didn't. Remember the EDI-IBZ service which ran a few years ago also using a LCY aircraft only got 40 TPs and that was 1200 miles.
I think the long and short of it is, do not book these expecting to get 80 TPs each way in J. If your reason for booking is TPs and you need that amount choose something else, so either MAN/EDI-HEL on AY, or any of the LHR/LGW/lCY routes.