BA would be nice to see if limited to B class which makes no real sense at LHR and if the devs are benevolent why not allow some C and D. Gives players more choice and is historically accurate. There are off many other options but considering BA Connection should be a local here I don’t see why it couldn’t be expanded a tad.
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Loganair 
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Could have Flybee at LHR tbf
They’re asking for this airport so much, I see they really want it. Why are they asking for this airport so much? I see they really want it in the game. What’s the reason? Excuse my ignorance.
Exactly. Also Aurigny, Blue Islands, Aer Lingus Regional, Aer Arran, EuroManx, EuroManx 2, Air Wales, Air Southwest and the above BA Connect (Likely more I’ve missed as well).
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In the LHR remodel of 2034 lmao.
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A mid-size, exceptionally diverse airport culminating regional services with ATR’s and ERJ’s, tons of LCC and charter airline flights per day, an array of airlines from Asia and the world including Cathay, Singapore, Ethiopian, Etihad and IndiGo, A380s on the regular from Emirates and one very recently from Qatar, connections across Europe from all the airlines you can imagine, lots of longer distance airlines with smaller types like Kuwait and soon to be Qanot Sharq with A20N family.
It also used to play host to a mass array of American airlines, the Virgin A346/B744, a regional BA airlines operating to destinations that all got smushed into LHR when BA went all hub and spoke, Qantas used to serve the airport in the 1980s/90s.
The airport itself is livestreamed practically every day by a multitude of different channels, it has a really interesting layout but also ease of movement and lots of stands for big fleets, cargo flights having had the AN225 visit from time to time and used to host Cathay B748F’s on the regular, really cool spotting points across the airport including the Aviation Park which hosts a Concorde, the Avro RJX prototype, a Nimrod AEW aircraft and a Trident.
Literally its everything you could want from a European airport without being a generic hub, whilst also being the airport of the North of England (a region largely forgotten about).
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Blue Island you get from Jersey but it’s a ATR 42, You get Aer Lingus ATRs, those airlines don’t exist anymore but guess you could make exceptions with BMI regional as it’s sister airline still around. Would love Aurigny in game, with ATRs and EMB 195 they had.
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So, trying to get Gemini to do things like this that it did the other day and it’s become inept again. Not sure if it has idiot software installed during the week or something.
Anyway, ideas for locals, I’m going to eventually make a post like my Florence one but it’s gonna be a REAL pain if Gemini keeps being thick. I’m going to add the types we should see then add the types I’d love to see, followed by airlines I’d love to see which aren’t relevant to now MAN.
easyJet with A319/A32/A20N/A21NX. B737 for post 2010 just and B752/B733 for full fleet rounding out. Loads of specials for the airline as well which you can find on the forum.
Ryanair with the B738 & B38M. You could also include the B737 but it was just one. The B732 was a long way back and was in the 1990s livery so would be good for an event in the pass.
TUI with the B738, B38M with the B788 and B789 for the longer range routes maybe unlocking at regional for Spanish and Greek connections with the international routes opening up routes to the Caribbean and that. Other types are the B763 and B752 which both wore TUI livery and were operated on regional routes with the B763 previously being used on long haul prior to the B788’s introduction.
Jet2 with its B738s, A321s and neos and B752s. You’d also need the B733 which the last few are currently only at Leeds but which used to be regular at MAN along with maybe the leased A330s 1 and 2.
Virgin Atlantic would be the fourth and final still operating local operator but would be limited to international only due to the fleet size and the destinations irl. It’d have the A333, A359 and the A339 for irl local ops but in-game, all of Virgin’s fleet are welcome as the B744 was a regular on the Orlando runs with the A346/A343’s also being operated, the A346 was based there at the back end of 2019 just prior to retirement. I don’t know whether the B789 has operated out of there, it likely has, but it could also work. The A320 would work if the devs wanted to add it as a C class aircraft option which would provide VIR as a local operator but we’ll see, still yet to see it at LHR where they operated from.
Right, onto the ideas for local old airlines beginning with Monarch. It’s in-game bar the B763 which could be added and the B738 but a nice easy addition. Next couple are also partly in-game.
FlyBe would be the next local, with their E175’s and E195’s in-game as well as the B463 (Which btw was a mid 2000s aircraft and was withdrawn a couple of years before 2010 - If they delete it I will be annoyed lol) as well as the purple Q400 which really should be regular. You also have the white Q400 as well as the final FlyBe livery for the Q400 plus the AT75, AT76, AT45, B733 (Another mid-2000s but would suit a C class alongside the E195, E145 and the DHC6 for a cool A class even though it was a Scotland only. Specials could be the Yorkshire E195, Cancer Research E195 and the Green Q400.
BMI is another now we have the A332. BMI Regional we have the E135 so just need the E145. BMI we’d need the A319, A320 and A321 which could also include the hybrid A321 to remember British Midland as it lasted till mid 2010. Included in this could be the B735 even though it was put across to baby in 2004/5.
Thomas Cook is currently International only with the A332 but which should have that made regional as the A332 was used to the Med regularly as well as the Canaries. It should have the globe and heart A332’s, the B763 globe and heart, the B752 globe and heart potentially with the special vote for a free day and egypt, the grey, heart and globe A321s as well as the specials Egypt and I love MCR and I love Cook’s Club liveries. The A320s also had the grey, heart and globe liveries. From the B752 onwards could be used at INN as they all flew in there regularly.
Then you have TUI’s old airline, Thomson. There were a host of liveries, all of which were either in the 2010s or survived into the 2010s, that being the waves livery for the B738, B752, B763 and B788. Then the Thomson and Thomsonfly.com liveries for the B733, B738, B752 and fly, B762 and B763. Specials could be the 2 Christmas liveries for the B738 and B752. If devs want to allow pre-2010, the B735 was operated till the end of 2008 as well as some of the other earlier liveries plus potentially Britannia would be fantastic.
bmi baby would be a great addition for 737 classic ops at the airport with the B733 and B735 operating from MAN as a main base till 2012.
Going back pre-2010 but not too far we have MyTravel whom were about until late 2008 though Scandinavia’s livery lasted into 2010. It operated the A320, A321, B752, B763 and the A332/A333. You could also have the short lived MyTravel Lite even though it was BHX based it saw service at MAN on behalf of it’s parent and was an A320 only airline (A nice easy extra operator with one livery, most of which is the same as its parent).
First Choice merged with Thomson in 2008 but its livery survived into 2015 and it was a regular MAN airlines with the A320, A321, B752 and B763 in its fleet.
You could also have BA Connect which was based at the airport until 2007 when the ops were folded back into the parent or sold to FlyBe. It operated B461/2/3, E145 and DH8C which would all be ace and fairly unique for an operator.
Another option is XL Airways, a big fella at MAN until its spectacular collapse in late 2008. It operated the B738, B739, B752, B762 and B763. Alongside that could be Travel City Direct with their B742/B743 ops which collapsed alongside XL its parent and the brand bought by Virgin who operated till the late 2010s. This would be an excellent unique operator of classic 747s.
FlyJet is another option, bust by 2007 but a MAN based airline with only a B752 livery needed for its short to medium haul ops.
Gemini kindly provided this for me after much bashing but with the wrong engines. Can’t win them all.
You could finally (finally as in off the top of my head, more might appear later) have BA with their C class 737s (B733, B734 and B735) and Airbus’s plus potentially the B752 and B763. BA binned most of it’s MAN ops in the early 2000s, it used to operate the B752s to LHR and to Europe as well as for a very short time to North America which is where the couple of B763’s flew to. Specials could be the MAN B732, Christmas B732, Poppy B734, poppy B752 and landor poppy, plus the Blue Peter B752.
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That’s the thing with WOA you can have any airline you like from any mainland Europe carriers to long haul, from Iraq Airways to Fiji Airways. Even Aeroflot if they get re-added.
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Fokker would be awesome, just hadn’t yet done the post for its livery and it was pre-2010. I’d love to see it tbh, more local fokkers.
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Added some snaz photos to jazz it up so people can see how many potential locals there could be at the airport.
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They were doing those short lived routes to Pakistan I believe after all the issues with PIA.
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Panic averted, the F100 suggestion is up and ready for your vote 
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