MAN Domestic Arrival to Train Platform Transfer Time?
Aug 9, 2017, 6:40 am
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MAN Domestic Arrival to Train Platform Transfer Time?
I'm arriving into MAN from EXT (domestic) on BE373 this Saturday. How much time should I factor in to collect a checked bag and get to the train platform at the airport station?
Aug 9, 2017, 8:12 am
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Note that if you book your onward train with Transpennine Express on an advanced ticket, they offer flexibility in the event of delays - details at https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/special-...ester-airport/
Aug 9, 2017, 8:25 am
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Allow 15 minutes walk from T3 to the station.
Baggage can take up to 30 minutes depending on the arrival time lottery.
Gagravarr makes a good point about the advanced tickets re-booking offered by TPE
Baggage can take up to 30 minutes depending on the arrival time lottery.
Gagravarr makes a good point about the advanced tickets re-booking offered by TPE
Aug 9, 2017, 10:57 am
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Give yourself an hour. The route to the station isn't intuitiive, can be quite clunky (lifts and escalator/walkways). Yesterday one walkway was down and the escalator down to the ticketing area was closed (wait for the lift and the "doors closing"..."doors opening" business).
Aug 9, 2017, 11:26 am
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Note that if you book your onward train with Transpennine Express on an advanced ticket, they offer flexibility in the event of delays - details at https://www.tpexpress.co.uk/special-...ester-airport/
If you miss your train because your bags took too long to come out, or (not applicable in your case) immigration delays, or because you stopped too long for a pee and a coffee, you're out of luck.
Aug 9, 2017, 12:31 pm
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I could be in Manc Central in under an hour from a domestic flight with no bags. International could be the same, depending on the immigration queues.
Aug 10, 2017, 12:50 am
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It's taken me the best part of an hour to get out of Heathrow, travelling with luggage.
MAN's terminal 3 is very awkwardly sited for access to the rail station, particularly if you are trundling with baggage.
There are external, street-level walkways, a short-cut up stairs or a variable wait for lifts. Then internal walkways to a lift or escalator (often not working) down to the ticketing level followed by another escalator/ramp/walkway down to the trains.
Aug 11, 2017, 8:00 pm
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Aug 11, 2017, 8:11 pm
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I have made it in less than 15 minutes from walking of the plane HBO but I know the route. BA have been quite good with bags (less than 15 minutes) but it is a lottery. My last flight was delayed quite a bit and I needed most of the 90 minutes I had to connect. With trains every hour I did not think TPE would accept 30 minutes as a reasonable connection time.
Aug 12, 2017, 1:31 am
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Remember - this is the airport which allowed some sort of pipe bomb on an aircraft, but where bottles of shampoo are cheerfully confiscated from holiday-makers hand luggage.
Aug 12, 2017, 4:33 am
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Update: I managed to go carry on only and booked a cab instead of the train. We taxied to the gate at 11:16am, walked out of the terminal at 11:22am. Now it's 11:32am and I'm on the M62. Very pleased.
Aug 12, 2017, 5:50 am
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Glad it worked out and thanks for the update!
Aug 12, 2017, 7:28 am
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The pudding was 110 ml total volume - she claimed it could be over 100 ml of liquid "and thus clearly not allowable".There's nothing like having problems with hypoglycemia somewhere over the north Atlantic because of a witch on a power trip. (no, we couldn't "just buy something past security" for someone with coeliac and multiple food allergies)
May she rot.