the_mandarin Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Has anyone with a non-British passport entered UK using the airport at Manchester recently? I have friends arriving at Manchester next month and was in the process of booking advance train tickets from Manchester Airport to Sheffield. If I have an idea of how long it will approximately take them to reach the train station from the time their plane lands, it would help me with the train reservation timings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
biotechpete Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 Depends on time of day, terminal, how many other non EU nationals there are in the flight, which country they are coming from. I'd leave an hour to be safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tzijlstra Posted July 19, 2016 Share Posted July 19, 2016 I tend to aim to be there as the flight lands (normally) if they have no luggage, if they do have luggage it is usually fine to be half an hour late. The longest time I needed to get through immigration at Manchester was when I got stuck trying to use the Irisscanner, well, I didn't get stuck, but the ten people in front of me who didn't realise you needed a new passport to use it did... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie Bynnol Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Coming Home "We understand that sometimes flights back to sunny Manchester are delayed and you may be concerned about missing the train home you bought your ticket for, don't worry with an Airport Advance you can catch the next available Transpennine Express train up to 3 hours after the departure time stated on the ticket.*" Arrival delays and baggage delays can be a much bigger problem eg EasyJet: arrive 50 min late held on plane 30 min walk/immigration 15 min baggage 40 min Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berberis Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Take note sheeple, when we leave the EU, this is what greets us at every European airport. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsomedave Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Take note sheeple, when we leave the EU, this is what greets us at every European airport. Highly unlikely. Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein all benefit from free movement within Europe - none of them are in the EU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_bloke Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Take note sheeple, when we leave the EU, this is what greets us at every European airport. Oh, the horror. However will we cope? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Berberis Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 Highly unlikely. Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein all benefit from free movement within Europe - none of them are in the EU. All part of Schengen, unlike the UK. We will be non-EU. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
handsomedave Posted July 20, 2016 Share Posted July 20, 2016 All part of Schengen, unlike the UK. We will be non-EU. Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein are all non-EU. They benefit from free movement within the EEA under an EC directive. The Schengen Agreement imposes a Visa requirement on certain non-EEA nationals whereby they need a visa to travel through Europe. The two are totally distinct. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spilldig Posted July 21, 2016 Share Posted July 21, 2016 What has put us off flying is the time took going out, not arriving back.When we first started it used to be one hour check in for Europe and international, then it went to two hours for international and then two hours for Europe and the last time we went we were advised 3 hours check in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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