Manchester

Manchester Monday 7th April 2025.

mancavgeek

07 Apr 2025 • 1 min read

G-BEJE, Hawker Siddeley HS748-105 Srs 1, Royal Mail Skynet, parked in front of one of the maintenance hangars at Manchester Airport, some time in the early 1990s.

This was operated on mail flights from Manchester by Dan-Air, and later Emerald Airways.

Manchester Monday 2 7th April 2025.

Side view of a long, thin, white, 4 engined jet airliner taxiing from right to left. The plane has black, billboard-style "Aire d'Evasions" titles in French running along the sides of the fuselage, with 3 of the letters replaced with coloured blobs that vaguely resemble the letters. These coloured blobs are repeated and combined on the black tail. Alternating strips of green grass and taxiways or a runway lead off to trees and bushes in the distance, with a ground of vehicles clustered around an obvious building site at the side of one of the taxiways.

F-GDRM, Douglas DC-8-73, Aire d'Evasions/Air Evasion, operating one of a series of charter flights to sunnier climes, some time between August and December 1993, as seen from the much missed spectators terraces on top of Terminal 1.

Manchester Monday 3 7th April 2024.

Side view of a grey and dark blue, twin engined jet airliner parked facing to the right. The top half of the body is grey, with black "British Airways Manchester" titles on the upper fuselage, the last word being in a slightly smaller, italic font. The lower half is dark blue, with a red pin-stripe coming forwards from the rear fuselage, ending in a half arrowhead under the front passenger cabin windows. The registration "G-BGDL" is on the lower rear fuselage in grey, the last 2 letters repeated on the nose-wheel doors. The top half of the tail is the same dark blue, with a pseudo-Royal crest, and the letters "DL" at the tip of the tail, both in grey. The bottom of the tail is grey, with a dark blue and grey triangle at the top. Grey concrete apron fills most of the frame, with a black metal mesh fence separating the plane from a new terminal building on the right. In the distance, a few cars and some red and yellow shipping containers are in front of rows of trees, with grey sky barely visible between them.

G-BGDL, Boeing 737-236Adv, British Airways Manchester, parked in front of the not-yet open Terminal 2 at Manchester Airport, 1992, as seen from the top of the T1 car park.

British Airways Manchester, along with British Airways Birmingham, was yet another half-arsed attempt (like all the rest) to set up a cheaper regional network.

Manchester Monday 4 7th April 2025.

Side view of a white, high-winged, twin propellor-engined airliner parked facing to the right. The body is all white, with dark blue "Lufthansa Cityline" titles on the lower fuselage., and the registration "D-BKIS" next to a German flag at the rear. The tail is dark blue, with the outline of a yellow circle containing a stylised flying bird made up of straight yellow lines. Grey concrete apron fills the foreground, behind the parapet of the terraces on top of the terminal building. More apron stretches off into the distance, with a smaller white propellor engined airliner behind a white and yellow fuel truck behind this plane, and a white, twin engined jet airliner with blue "Airtours" titles beyond that, it's nose surrounded by loaded baggage carts. Green grass fills the remainder of the frame, right at the back.

D-BKIS, De Haviland Canada DHC-8-311 Dash 8, Lufthansa Cityline, parked on Pier B at Manchester Airport, sometime between June 1993 and March 1996.

I miss the old T1 terraces these days.