Cripes! I see RAF Manston Kent London Chas 'n' Dave Margate Ramsgate London Tracey Emin International Airport has undergone yet another name change!Officially it was known as 'Kent International Airport' in recent times. But with the launch of its new website this week, it seems we should now refer to it as 'Manston - Kent's International Airport'. I suppose in the same way Windscale became Sellafield, Long Kesh became The Maze, and Marathon became Snickers, owners Infratil feel that a new name will help disguise the, er, paucity of their offering.
To add to the semblance of jollity there doesn't appear to be anywhere you can complain about noise and other pollution now, either. Although 'jolly' is not the term I'd use to describe their logo, which looks as if it was designed by Jack the Ripper in one of his more gory moments. Not the sort of image I'd want to be confronted by if I was a nervous flier!
Meanwhile I see Lydd... oh, sorry, London Ashford International Airport has junked its Jersey flights due to lack of interest!
14 comments:
The Manston logo is a piece of awful design .
Think flying ,safety ,responsible staff ,not out off their face on Diamond White, trying to write their name in the snow with their pee.
The message I get is we are taking the piss, why not take the piss route with us .
Might work guess but is not exactly Madmen is it ?
anon again!
R.A.F. Manston was it's better name. Let us not forget our local history.
I, for one, have every hope that one day some big company will come and take over the place, and build a really modern airport, including a direct rail link to London. It's all this mucking about with Local Councils that put the big boys off.
There was mention of Sir Richard Branson making Manston exclusive to Virgin and Singapore Airlines.
I guess someone put him off the idea.
I guess the Newbie is responsible for the new web-site. Presumably this is a way of showing that he wasn't just put there to close the place down? I guess it's some sort of substitute for failing to attract any substantial business to use the place. Infratil gave Matt Clarke three years to turn a profit. I wonder how long they'll give the Newbie.
ha ha thats really awful design, its an airport for goodness sake, not cheap wine! looks like someone's cousin at Manston has a legit copy of PhotoShop and a GCSE in graphic design?! woeful.
So for just £26.99 we can buy a local unemployable a one way ticket to Edinburgh and let the Scots pay for their benefits. We could probably get rid of all of them for just a few hundred thou. It would pay for itself in less than a week!
A good Protestant colour or I'm a Dutchman?
Anon E Nonnyno says
That logo is genius. "Manston" the verb is born. As in "Our noisy neighbours were Manstoning again all night".
"I was proceedings along Augusta Road yer worships when I saw the accused stop and blatantly manston over an elderly monocled gentleman who was much alarmed by the noise and pollution inherent in the accused manstoning action"
To Manston ... to noisily pollute and fuckup often with an antipodean influence. (for fuckup also see Thanet Council)
"Visit the porridge wogs. If you stay they will pay for your care, or your university place at our expense."
Great plan, 12:48AM.
Though Scotland won't automatically pay benefit to an alcoholic on the strength of their, um, illness, as we do in England.
Just in case you ever wondered why we're knee deep in piss-head sweaties.
It seems that Sweaty Control has beaten you to it, on that one.
Careful, 7:46, for your terminology may attract the attention of the Racial Discrimination Enforcers not to mention possible legal action by the Jocks! Haven't heard the 'w' word you used since the McPherson report!
As to Manston, well what's in a name? Doesn't really matter what anyone calls it. It's traffic that counts and when they do get any everyone whinges anyway. No win situation as norm in Thanet!
PS. Actually, 6:48, it will quickly convert to a tri-colour with a bit of white and green when they get their Dublin route but they will need to be careful with Belfast!
Richard
If you take a train viaCanterbury you will see England's holiest City station has also been given the same visual sweeney todd treatment.
I think what you have here is one cheap, unimagintative PR firm that KCC touts to its friends, and they use the same idea/font over and over and over again.
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Richard
If you take a train via Canterbury you will see England's holiest City station has also been given the same visual Sweeney Todd treatment.
I think what you have here is one cheap, unimaginative PR firm that KCC touts to its friends, and they use the same idea/font over and over and over again.
At
http://www.kentinternationalairport-manston.com/about-the-airport/community/
They say
We understand the importance of working with and contributing to our local community
But nothing about noise. Nothing about not ever having gained planning permission. Just some blurb about the Spitfire Museum and a couple of crap events. And the two events they are sponsoring are on the unaffected north parts of the island.
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