Originally Posted by
Creole Spirit
Manchester has been on TG's European route map for many many years already, a discussion about it pops up almost every other year (see i.e. last threat here on 1.Apr18) but was never launched.
The most critical point is: will it economically negatively affect the two daily London flights? These slots at Heathrow are too valuable to easily being sacrificed in favour of new alternate Manchester flights.
The A350 seems a suitable aircraft while the range of the B787-8 might cause other headaches
I can't imagine that many people currently head from MAN to London either via a flight or otherwise just to fly TG. If there is going to be a negative effect, I would imagine it will hit FRA and MUC as much as LHR given they are the best one-stop connection points for Star Alliance to MAN. I'm guessing the case here is to allow them to capture some of the one-stop traffic to BKK from MAN currently split across many airlines but in particular BA, EK, EY and QR.