Is Manchester airport the worst in Europe?

doots said:
Can you take empty plastic bottles through security(yes I'm helping save the planet and not being a tight ****) and fill them up once through?
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Save the planet isn't an option in the airport.

We'd been in duty free for some stuff and wandered into the smoking part to buy some fags, as per official policy they refused to let me put them in my duty free bag with my aftershave & perfume and insisted that they sealed them in a separate plastic bag, apparently it's to stop you using them in the smoking area.
 
wife and daughter were supposed to be home tonight from the south of france, the aircraft left about 1 hour and 20 minutes late from manchester to bezier , half way to france it diverted to marseille? , no reason given , so their flight has been cancelled , no flight until saturday now, they are been given 1 nights accommodation by ryanair ,but they need to pay for the extra night , im sure they can claim it back ,will they get compensation as well and if so how much would they get ?
 
Sir peace frog said:
wife and daughter were supposed to be home tonight from the south of france, the aircraft left about 1 hour and 20 minutes late from manchester to bezier , half way to france it diverted to marseille? , no reason given , so their flight has been cancelled , no flight until saturday now, they are been given 1 nights accommodation by ryanair ,but they need to pay for the extra night , im sure they can claim it back ,will they get compensation as well and if so how much would they get ?
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Highly unlikely they'll be eligible for compensation as it looks like an extraordinary circumstance, but they can claim back all reasonable costs, hotel, food, soft drinks, toiletries, clean underwear
We were delayed a few years ago and were reimbursed our expenses, but we were told the airline wouldn't refund the cost of any alcohol
 
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Flew out of Manchester a couple of weeks ago, then back from Antalya yesterday, both relatively pain free, my issue though, is the cost of food/drink once they have you “locked in”, it’s fuckin scandalous, something like 13 euros for the shittiest burger at Burgerking, and people were actually queueing for the privilege!

The offerings on the plane itself were even worse, my girlfriend paid in advance for some snack box, we got a shitty little bag of nuts, a date with a nut in, a piece of apricot, with a nut in, and what can only be described as a shallow tray of water, I’d have been embarrassed to serve that to anyone.

Take your own food with you and don’t give them the satisfaction of ripping you off, wankers.
 
Dirty Harry said:
Flew out of Manchester a couple of weeks ago, then back from Antalya yesterday, both relatively pain free, my issue though, is the cost of food/drink once they have you “locked in”, it’s fuckin scandalous, something like 13 euros for the shittiest burger at Burgerking, and people were actually queueing for the privilege!

The offerings on the plane itself were even worse, my girlfriend paid in advance for some snack box, we got a shitty little bag of nuts, a date with a nut in, a piece of apricot, with a nut in, and what can only be described as a shallow tray of water, I’d have been embarrassed to serve that to anyone.

Take your own food with you and don’t give them the satisfaction of ripping you off, wankers.
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Book the lounge mate, yeah it's 50 odd quid per couple but fill yer boots while in there and then snaffle some sarnies before you get the flight.
 
marco said:
ermmm now then you hit a nerve,love a few beers then we grab the food ,water etc for the flight,might be better doing this next time
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If it's just me and the Mrs then I'll always do this.
OK it's nowhere near the standard of Etihad or Emirates business class lounges at Mcr but beats queing up for a decade in a sweaty bar in T3 etc.
And we definitely get our monies worth.
 
doots said:
If it's just me and the Mrs then I'll always do this.
OK it's nowhere near the standard of Etihad or Emirates business class lounges at Mcr but beats queing up for a decade in a sweaty bar in T3 etc.
And we definitely get our monies worth.
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It's always fun watching the once a year lot in the lounges across the globe, taking massive plates of food and gulping down as much booze as possible, they always leave with bulging pockets
 
Check in was a bit shit today at T3.
There used to be a self bag drop system for bryan air,now it seems all check ins bar hand luggage only have to go through the same queue.
Anyway, that took an hour but fortunately we had security fast pass so could meet up with @RadcliffeRick for a few freebies in the lounge :-).
Went to shit after that(not your fault Rick),currently sat on the tarmac delayed for 2 hours and some spoilt brat has decided she wants to get off!
(the aircraft)
P.S.,we've just passed the magical 2hr mark for compo but they've mentioned bad weather.
Does that rule compo out?
 
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