Manston changes for Flybe

Flybe is to pull its service from Manchester to the Kent airport of Manston from 4 April and to replace it with a three times per week flight to Belfast City Airport on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.  The airline said that passenger numbers made the Manchester route economically unviable.  The new service will be flown by a Bombardier Q400 72-seat turboprop with a flight time of 1hr 40mins. 

The daily service to Edinburgh continues and here the flight time is 1hr 35 minutes.

Manston, which calls itself “Kent’s International Airport” is the most south easterly airport in the UK and with its long 2752m runway was once a RAF “Major Diversion” airfield.  It is four miles from Ramsgate, 18 miles from Dover, and 75 miles from London. www.london-manston.com

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