Situated about 15 minutes walk from the airport's railway station, the pub’s outdoor garden is the ideal spot to capture aircraft about to touch down on runway 23R - on sunny days, the light is behind you from about 15:00 – and it is a great place to sit with a pint and a chip butty while watching the action.
Be warned, it can get very busy! There is a children’s play area in the garden, inevitably a great attraction for young families, though there are plenty of tables and quite a bit of standing room is available if things are really hectic.
Further details are at: - http://www.airporthotel.robinsonsbrewery.com/our-pub
The following photos were taken between 16:00 and 18:00.
Cathay Pacific Cargo’s Boeing 747-800 freighter, B-LJM, was making its first visit to Manchester.
One thing about Manchester Airport is that amongst the heavy metal, you will still find general aviation aircraft coming and going. Capital Aviation’s Piper PA31-350 Navajo Chieftain, G-VIPU, is used in the air ambulance role.
Arriving from Amsterdam, KLM’s Boeing 737-900 PH-BXO, in Skyteam livery.
Thomson Airways’ Boeing 787s have settled down to life on the carrier’s routes from Manchester. G-TUIB 'Alfie' has doubtless been somewhere warm and sunny.
Finnair’s Embraer 190s are frequent visitors to Manchester. OH-LKF is shown nearing the end of its trip from Helsinki.
The unmistakeable shape (and sound) of a Piaggio P180 Avanti. I-FXRI is operated by K-air.
Air Italy’s Boeing 767-300 I-AIGJ was coming in for re-painting by Air Livery. It was a frequent visitor to Manchester in its early days, when it was operated by Britannia Airways as G-OBYA.
Sun-Air of Denmark is one of the few airlines still operating the Dornier 328Jet on scheduled services. OY-NCU, resplendent in British Airways livery, is seen arriving from Billund.
Since becoming part of the SAS Group, Blue 1’s aircraft operate regular services into Manchester on behalf of the parent company. OH-BLQ is a Boeing 717 - it's a DC9 by any other name!
Nice to capture one of these in pixels at last. Airbus A320 TC-FBO of Turkish operator Freebird.
The Fokker 100 is still giving sterling service on many short-haul routes around the world. Helvetic Airways have a small fleet of the type and HB-JVE is one of them.
Providing domestic feeder services for Virgin Atlantic’s routes out of London, is Virgin Atlantic Little Red, which uses four Airbus A320s wet-leased from Irish carrier Aer Lingus. EI-EZW is one of the fleet.
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