Crowds greet A380 at Manchester Airport

Says it all,,,

One could also argue "Is there really nothing better to do on the internet than come to El Reg and write inane comments?"

You really are a bundle of fun

Do you think they sat there all day, or maybe just knew when it would arrive and turned up just before? I remember Concorde's last flight and from my office a few turned up early but most about and hour before and left shortly after.

If you read the article the wings are made in Cheshire so many of these would be workers proud to show of their work to family and friends, like in Filton when it was built there and I worked for their then shareholder BAE.

And lastly security threat, what with hundreds of people there somebody to walk around with a large shoulder mounted weapon? In an area I guess is regularly open to the public regularly anyway. Don't worry, security assessments would have been done by somebody with a few more skills in the area rather than forumnaysayer.

So like the one above me, did you really have to come on here and post inane moaning posts about something others might have enjoyed or do we just all have to do what you view as fun?

Yep, if only....

....Airbus had been able to make it look other than extremely ugly.

I like aeroplanes really, but this one just doesn't enthuse me at all. I keep thinking it's flying backwards....

The secret of journalism

is that no matter the publication, its importance or integrity, many if not most of the articles it publishes are rehashed from the press releases the publication receives.

Or do you think El Reg is such a huge newsgathering organisation that it actually has a tentacle physically present at Ringway today?

Primate city

The UK is an example of a country with a primate city (London). All other major cities in such countries are so far behind the primate in size and influence that, yes, they do just count as "regional" cities. See <http://geography.about.com/od/urbaneconomicgeography/a/primatecities.htm>

Have a cup of tea

And when you're done, give's a list of "nice" countries, with good human rights records, that we're allowed to fly planes to from Manchester.

And when you're done, I'll go tell the airport to shut down due to lack of destinations.