Manchester: Aircraft Movements, Flight Logs & Daily Heads Up

pendleton said:

C-GHPQ diverted into Manchester this morning, I don't know the reason.
ACA852 YYZ - LHR

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Fog at Heathrow.

I don't know whether you remember me as it seems to have been an age since I last posted a daily log for Manchester!
Firstly my thanks to #Aviador for his help in providing a means by which I could start to work on finding a means to gather the data from the new FR24 website. Also my thanks to a neighbour for giving me her time to enable me to fine-tune how to use Co-Pilot.
Previously it use to take me an hour a day to produce a day's log, but today it took me 3 hours. Let me see how it goes over the next week whilst I do some fine tuning as I can not afford to spend 3 hours every day - whilst doing numerous jobs around the house in order to keep my wife happy!! (Only joking).
Anyway, here is the log for yesterday (23rd October) and please do let me know if you would like me to continue the log records.

Movements for Friday 23rd October 2026 – data from FR24/Flightaware

Cancellations – Aurigny 4, easyJet 4, Loganair 2, Ryanair 1 = Total 11

Diversions – Egyptair MS781 to Dublin and Jet2 LS804 to East Midlands

Arrivals – 315

Departures – 322

Total Movements – 637

Notes:

For comparison the highest daily movement that I have recorded since 1st August 2021 was 705 on Sunday 30th August.

Movements per operator: Aer Lingus 6, Aer Lingus Regional 16, Air Canada 2, Air France 8, Air Transat 2, ASL/Fedex 1, British Airways 14, Brussels 4, Cathay Pacific 2, Corendon 2, easyJet 123, Egyptair 2, Emirates 6, Ethiopian 2, Etihad 4, Eurowings 10, Finnair 4, Flexfjet 1, Gulf Air 2, Hainan 2, Helvetic/Swiss 6, Icelandair 2, ITA/easyJet 2, Jet2 94, Juneyao Air 2, KLM 12, Lauda Europe 2, Loganair 14, Lufthansa 7, Lufthansa City 3, Luminair 1, Luxair 2, Norwegian 12, Pegasus 4, Qatar 6, Royal Air Maroc 2, Ryanair 164, SAS 12, Saudia 2, Silver Aviation 1, Silver Cloud Air 1, Singapore 2, Spree Flug 2, SunExpress 8, TUI 42, Turkish 6, Virgin Atlantic 8, VistaJet 1, Vueling 4

Air Transport Movements: 630

Miscellaneous Movements: 7

Total Movements: 637

Expected Air Transport Movements according to ACL Report - 654

Well I personally find this information interesting but I think 3 hours daily is far too long a time to use up to produce it, presumably all the while wrestling with the new pigswill FR24 layout (which seems to be aimed at 7 year olds).
I would welcome a continuation but not at the cost of 3 hours of your time every day.

Well it's got a little easier today - just around the 2 hour time - so I'll see what it's like by the weekend. One of the problems I've discovered is finding the arrival of inbound diverted flights and then getting them onto the new spreadsheet. Still, as I say, time will tell and, if I can get it down to a manageable time then I will restart from 1st November.

Fingers crossed.

Your info is always fantastic but don`t put yourself out

Well I once again got the processing down to 2 hours which, allowing for the number of cancellations and diversions was not too bad. I will still need to do some fine tuning, but it's getting there.

Movements for Sunday 25th October 2026 – data from FR24/Flightaware

Cancellations – Aer Lingus Regional 4 (EI3610/EI3611/EI3322/EI3323), easyJet 12 (U289/U290/U2715/U2716/U22047/U22048/U22161/U22162/U22201/U22202/U27855/U27856), KLM 2 (KL1033/KL1034), Loganair 6* (LM25/LM26/LM693/LM694), Swiss 1 (LX395) = Total 25 - * LM25 & LM26 are counted twice as flights route ABZ/MAN/NQY and return

Diversions – To messy to count I'm afraid and my laptop is playing up aas I can't minimise my webscreen!!

Arrivals – 296

Departures – 300

Total Movements – 596

Notes:

For comparison the highest daily movement that I have recorded since 1st August 2021 was 705 on Sunday 30th August.

Movements per operator: 2Excel Aviation 1, Aer Lingus 8, Aer Lingus Regional 11, Air France 5, Air Transat 2, AirX 2, Aurigny 4, British Airways 16, Brussels 3, Cathay Pacific 2, Coredon 2, easyJet 118, Edelweiss/Swiss 2, Egyptair 2, Emirates 6, Ethiopian 2, Etihad 6, Eurowings 6, Finnair 4, FSH Aviation 2, GlobeAir 1, Gulf Air 2, Hainan 2, Icelandair 2, Jet2 95, KLM 11, Lauda Europe 3, Loganair 6, Lufthansa 10, Luminair 2, Luxair 2, Luxwing 1, NetJets 2, NetJets UK 2, Norwegian 2, Pegasus 6, Qatar 6, Royal Air Maroc 2, Ryanair 159, SAS 6, Saudia 2, Silver Aviation 2, Singapore 2, SunExpress 7, Swiss 2, TAP Express 2, Toyo 1, TUI 33, Turkish 6, Virgin Atlantic 7, VistaJet 4, Vueling 2

Air Transport Movements: 576

Miscellaneous Movements: 20

Total Movements: 596

Thanks @Scottie Dog
I believe there were 3 diversions away from MAN (although I can’t be 100% sure on that).

Movements for Monday 26th October 2026 – data from FR24/Flightaware

Cancellations – Loganair 1 (LM698), Turkish 1 (TK6984) = Total 2

Diversions – Ryanair 1 (FR692) from Prestwick

Arrivals – 285

Departures – 295

Total Movements – 580

Notes:

For comparison the highest daily movement that I have recorded since 1st August 2021 was 705 on Sunday 30th August.

Movements per operator: Aer Lingus 8, Aer Lingus Regional 14, Air Canada 2, Air France 6, AirX 2, ASL/Fedex 1, Aurigny 4, British Airways 13, Brussels 4, Buzz/Ryanair 2, Cathay Pacific 2, Coredon 4, easyJet 119, Edelweiss/Swiss 2, Egyptair 2, Emirates 6, Ethiopian 2, Etihad 4, Eurowings 6, Finnair 4, Flexjet 1, Helvetic/Swiss 2, Iberia 2, Icelandair 2, Jet2 79, Juneyao 2, KLM 12, Kuwait 2, Lauda Europe 3, Loganair 13, Lufthansa 9, Luxair 2, Luxwing 1, NetJets UK 2, Norwegian 8, Pakistan International 2, Pegasus 5, Qatar 6, Royal Jordanian 2, Ryanair 131, Ryanair UK 15, SAS 10, Saudia 2, Silver Cloud Air 1, Singapore 2, SunExpress 8, Swiss 2, TAP Air Portugal 2, TUI 29, Turkish 8, Virgin Atlantic 5, Vueling 2

Air Transport Movements: 573

Miscellaneous Movements: 7

Total Movements: 580

Well it looks as if I might have tweaked things enough to restart my regular posts for movement logs from 1st November. I'm taking a few days off but will use the time to check that I've got the time taken for a day's log to around 90 minutes. Fingers crossed that the next log will be on Monday 2nd November for 1st November movements.

Ahead of my restarting daily logs for flights 1st November, I noticed that yesterday (Friday 30th October) KLM used German Airways E190 D-ACJJ on KL1029/KL1030.

I don't recall KLM often having to bring in an aircraft from another carrier.

Leeds and I think Bristol have used other operators