Manchester International Airport

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Manchester Airport

IATA: MAN - ICAO: EGCC
Summary
Airport type		Public
Operator		Manchester Airport Group
Serves		Manchester
Elevation AMSL		257 ft (78 m)
Coordinates		53°21′15″N, 002°16′30″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
06L/24R	10,000	3,048	Concrete/Grooved Asphalt
06R/24L	9,997	3,047	Concrete/Grooved Asphalt

Manchester Airport (IATA: MAN, ICAO: EGCC) is an airport in Manchester, England. It opened to airline traffic in June 1938. Formerly known as Ringway Airport and, until 1986, Manchester International Airport. It is located on the boundary between Cheshire and Manchester in Greater Manchester.

It has two parallel runways, three adjacent terminals, and a railway station. The airport is owned by the Manchester Airport Group which is controlled by a group of ten local authorities in the Greater Manchester area. MAG owns several other UK airports; Nottingham East Midlands, and the smaller Hurn, Bournemouth and Kirmington,Humberside.

Manchester Airport has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P712) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers and for flying instruction.

1 Worldwide hub
2 Passenger numbers
3 Security
4 Terminals and destinations
5 Protest
6 Non Passenger Attractions
7 Trivia
8 See also
9 References
10 External links

[edit] Worldwide hub

The airport provides direct flights to over 200 destinations worldwide by over 95 airlines. The airport is the transatlantic hub for BMI and a major European hub for British Airways. Major US carriers from Manchester include American, Continental, Delta and USAirways, whilst Singapore Airlines, Emirates, Pakistan, Qatar and Etihad serve the Asian market. Charter airlines First Choice Airways, MyTravel, Thomas Cook and Thomsonfly use Manchester as their operational base and the airport also acts as a secondary hub for British Airways, Pakistan International Airlines and Virgin Atlantic Airways. Several other British airline carriers have a strong presence.

[edit] Passenger numbers

Manchester is the fourth busiest airport in the UK and the biggest outside of London, in terms of passengers per year. In the twelve months to October 2006, Manchester handled 22.1 million terminal passengers, a figure exceeded only by Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted in the UK.

Manchester airport's new master plan envisages passengers reaching 38 million by 2015, an average annual growth rate of 6.2%. This appears on the high side, as no allowance appears to be made for 'standstill years' such as the current sustained period of lack of growth. The 50 million passenger mark is slated for 2030, by which time both ground and air access capacity will be severely strained.

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[edit] Security

Manchester Airport is policed by the Greater Manchester Police. Several security related incidents have occurred at the airport in recent years. In particular:

In 2002, a security firm successfully smuggled fake explosives, detonators and genuine firearms onto a flight. [1]
In 2004, the BBC's Whistleblower program revealed a series of security failures at the airport, including faulty metal detectors and a lack of regular random baggage checks. [2]
In 2005, after spotted acting suspiciously, police used a taser to shoot a man on the apron, after he appeared to resist arrest. [3]
On the June 6, 2006, Aabid Hussain Khan, 21, of West Yorkshire and a 16 year old boy were arrested at the airport and later charged under Section 57 of the Terrorism Act, for conspiracy to murder and conspiracy to cause public nuisance by using poisons or explosives.^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] Terminals and destinations

Manchester Airport Skywalk

Manchester Airport has three interconnected terminals, allowing passengers to move between all three terminals without going outside. Terminals 1 and 3 are located in the same building and are connected by a corridor. Terminals 1 and 2 are linked by the skywalk, a passage which goes across the airfield, with travelators to aid passengers with the long walk. Along the skywalk there are the railway station, some shops and a Radisson Hotel.

[edit] Terminal 1

Terminal One is mostly used by non-BA international traffic. It is also the terminal used as the base for MyTravel and Jet2.com who each have a separate check-in on the lower level. It has 24 stands, 18 of which have airbridges (Gates refer to those accessible from the piers). It opened in 1962 although having undergone many extensions and renovations since opening. The current passenger throughput is 10.1 million passengers per year. At present, Terminal 1 is being renovated to accommodate more aircraft. In addition, a major refurbishment of the retail spaces is underway.

Ajet (Larnaca, Paphos)
Aer Arann (Galway, Kerry, Nantes, Waterford)
Aer Lingus (Cork [Starts March 2007], Dublin)
Air Atlanta (Orlando-Sanford, Sharm-El-Sheik, Tenerife)
Air Baltic (Riga)
Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Hanover, Leipzig, London-Stansted, Munster, Nuremburg, Paderborn, Palma de Mallorca, Vienna, Zurich)
Air Canada (Toronto-Pearson [seasonal])
Air Scotland (operated by Greece Airways) (Alicante, Barcelona, Girona, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca)
Air Transat (Calgary, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver)
Aurigny Air Services (Guernsey)
Aviajet (Faro, Kefallinia, Naples, Palma, Reus, Zakynthos)
BH Air (Burgas, Plovdiv, Sofia, Varna)
Channel Express (Alicante, Malaga)
City Airline (Gothenburg)
Cyprus Airways (Larnaca, Paphos)
Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi)
Eurocypria (Heraklion, Larnaca, Paphos)
Euromanx (Isle Of Man)
European Aviation Air Charter (Brescia, Lourdes-Tarbes)
Flightline (London-Luton)
Flybe (Belfast-City, Brest [Starts March 2007], Exeter, Glasgow Int [Starts March 2007], Norwich, Rennes [Starts March 2007], Southampton)
Fly Gibraltar (Gibraltar [Starts mid 2007])
Flyjet (Arrecife, Corfu, Dalaman, Heraklion, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Ovda, Paphos, Rhodes, Sharm-El-Sheik, Tenerife, Thessalonika)
Futura (Alicante, Arrecife, Dalaman, Glasgow, Ibiza, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Mahon, Palma, Reus, Tenerife)
Greece Airways (Alicante, Barcelona, Gerona, Malaga, Palma)
HLX.com (Cologne-Bonn, Hanover, Stuttgart)
Icelandair (Reykjavik)
Jet2.com (Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin-Schönefeld [starts 25 March 2007], Budapest, Chambery, Edinburgh, Faro, Geneva, Hassi Messaoud, Ibiza, London-Gatwick, Malaga, Milan-Bergamo, Murcia, Nice, Palma, Paris Charles-De-Gaulle, Pisa, Rome-Fiumicino, Tenerife-South, Toulouse, Valencia, Venice Marco Polo, Warsaw)
Kıbrıs Türk Hava Yolları (Dalaman)
Libyan Arab Airlines (Tripoli)
LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw)
Lufthansa (Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich)
Luxair (Dublin, Luxembourg)
Monarch Airlines (Alicante, Almeria, Barcelona, Faro, Jerez [Starts Summer 2007], Mahon, Malaga, Palma, Tenerife)
Monarch Airlines (Arrecife, Calgray, Cancun, Catania, Chania, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Goa, Grenoble, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kittila, Kos, Las Palmas, London-Gatwick, Luxor, Mahon, Male, Naples, Orlando-Sanford, Palma, Paphos, Preveza, Punta Cana, Rhodes, Salzburg, Shram-El-Sheik, Skiathos, Sofia, Tenerife, Thessalonika, Venice, Zakynthos)
MyTravel (Agadir, Alicante, Almeria, Antalya, Arrecife, Bergamo, Bodrum, Bucharest-Otopeni, Burgas, Cancun, Corfu, Dalaman, Djerba, Faro, Fuerteventura, Gerona, Goa, Grenoble, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Kalamata, Kefallinia, Kos, La romana, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Las Vegas, London-Gatwick, Luxor, Mahon, Malaga, Malta, Monastir, Montego Bay, Naples, Orlando-Sanford, Palma, Paphos, Puerto Plata, Reus, Rhodes, Rimini, Salvador- Dois De Julho, Salzburg, Sharm-El-Sheik, Tenerife, Toronto-Pearson, Turin, Vancouver, Varadero, Zakynthos)
Norwegian Air Shuttle (Bergen)
Nouvelair (Djerba)
Olympic Airlines (Athens)
PrivatAir (Istanbul-Atatürk)
Ryanair (Dublin, Shannon)
Scandinavian Airlines (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- SAS Braathens (Oslo)
SkyEurope (Bratislava, Krakow, Salzburg)
Spanair (Mahon)
Swiss International Air Lines (Basel/Mulhouse [Starts January 15, 2007], Zürich)
Thomas Cook Airlines Alicante, Almeria, Antalya, Arrecife, Banjul, Barbados, Bodrum, Burgas, Calgary, Cancun, Catania, Cayo Coco, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Fuchal, Gerona, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Innsbruck, Izmir, Jerez, Kefallinia, Kos, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Lyon, Mahon, Malaga, Malta, Monastir, Montreal, Orlando-Sanford, Palma, Paphos, Preveza, Puerto Plata, Reus, Rohdes, Rovaniemi, Salzburg, Sharm-El-Sheik, Skiathos, Sofia, Split, Teneirfe, Thessalonika, Toronto-Pearson, Toulouse, Turin, Vancouver, Verona, Zakynthos)
Turkish Airlines (Istanbul-Atatürk)

[edit] Terminal 2

Terminal 2

Terminal 2, opened in 1993, is used mostly by long haul and charter traffic. A few European airlines such as KLM and Air Malta also operate flights out of the Terminal. It has 15 gates, of which 14 have airbridges. Terminal 2 is planned to be capable of being extensively modified so it can eventually accommodate 18 million passengers per annum instead of the current throughput of 7.3 million. This is an ongoing project that will be carried out within the next few years.

Adria Airways (Ljubljana) [restarts summer 2007]
Air Europa (Arrecife, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Tenerife)
Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
Air Malta (Malta)
Astraeus (Agadir, Banjul-Yundum, Brescia, Calvi, Chambery, Dalaman, Innsbruck, Izmir, Kefallinia, Kos, Lourdes-Tarbes, Lyon, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Pula, Sal, Salzburg, Sharm-El-Sheik, Skiathos, Taba, Tenerife-South, Varna, Verona, Zakynthos)
Atlasjet (Istanbul-Atatürk)
Austrian Airlines (Innsbruck) [starts 23 Dec 2006]
Avianca (Bogotá) (Starts March 2007)
Belavia (Minsk)
Biman Bangladesh Airlines (Dhaka, Jeddah, Rome-Fiumicino)
BritishJet (Malta)
Bulgaria Air (Sofia, Varna)
Continental Airlines (Newark)
Croatia Airlines (Dubrovnik, Pula, Split) [seasonal]
Czech Airlines (Prague)
Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York-JFK)
Emirates (Dubai)
Excel Airways (Alicante, Antalya, Arrecife, Barbados, Bodrum, Burgas, Chambery, Chania, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Geneva, Grenoble, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ivalo, Kalamata, Kavala, Kefallinia, Kos, Larnaca, Las Palmas, London-Gatwick, Mahon, Malaga, Mikonos, Mitilini-Lesbos, Monastir, Murcia, Orlando-Sanford, Ovda, Palma, Paphos, Plovdiv, Preveza, Rhodes, Samos, Santorini, Sharm-El-Sheik, Skiathos, Tel Aviv, Teneirfe, Volos, Zakynthos)
First Choice Airways (FCA) (Agadir, Alicante, Almeria, Antalya, Arrecife, Banjul-Yundum, Barbados, Bodrum, Bourgas, Cancun, Cozumel, Cayo Coco, Chania, Colombo, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Geneva, Goa, Grenoble, Hassi Messaoud [Starts in June 2007], Heraklion, Huatulco, Ibiza, Innsbruck, Kefalonia, Kittila, Kos, Las Palmas, Mahon, Malaga, Male, Malta, Mitilini-Lesbos, Mombasa, Monastir, Montego Bay, Naples, Nassau, Orlando-Sanford, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Porlamar, Preveza, Puerto Plata, Puerto Vallarta, Punta Cana, Reus, Rhodes, Rovaniemi, Salvador (Dois De Julho), Salzburg, Santorini, Samana, Sharm-El-Sheik, Skiathos, Sri Lanka, Taba, Tenerife, Thessaloniki, Toulouse, Turin, Varadero, Varna, Verona, Zakynthos)
First Choice Airways (DP) (Larnaca, Paphos)
Flyglobespan (Calgary [starts May 2007], Cape Town, Toronto-Pearson, Vancover [starts May 2007])
Free Bird Airlines (Dalaman)
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
LTE International Airways (Arrecife, Palma, Tenerife-South)
Luxor Air (Sharm-El-Sheik)
Mahan Air (Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
Onur Air (Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Ercan)
Pakistan International Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, Houston-Intercontinental, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, New York-JFK)
Pegasus Airlines (Bodrum, Dalaman)
Qatar Airways (Doha)
Singapore Airlines (Singapore, Zürich)
Syrian Arab Airlines (Damascus)
Thomsonfly (Agadir, Alicante, Antalya, Arrecife, Barbados, Bodrum, Burgas, Cancun, Cardiff, Chania, Corfu, Dalaman, Dubrovnik, Fort Lauderdale, Faro, Figari, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Geneva, Gerona, Glasgow, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Kavala, Kefallinia, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Lisbon [starts May 2007], Luxor, Lyon, Mahon, Malaga, Malta, Monastir, Montego Bay, Naples, Orlando-Sanford, Palma, Paphos, Pisa, Puerto Plata, Pula, Punta Cana, Reus, Rhodes, Rovaniemi, Salzburg, Samos, Santorini, Sharm-El-Sheik, Skiathos, Sofia, Taba, Tenerife-North, Tenerife-South, Thessaloniki, Toulouse, Turin, Varadero, Varna, Venice, Verona, Zakynthos)
US Airways (Philadelphia)
Viking Airlines (Heraklion, Ivalo, Kuusamo)
Virgin Atlantic Airways (Barbados, Orlando, St Lucia)
Zoom Airlines (Calgary, Glasgow, London-Gatwick, Toronto-Pearson, Vancouver)

[edit] Terminal 3

Terminal 3 was formerly known as Terminal 1 Domestic and was opened by the late Diana, Princess of Wales before being revamped and renamed in the late 1990s when BA decided Manchester should be one of the hubs for their BA Connect service. The terminal is primarily used for British Airways, Oneworld, bmi/bmibaby and domestic traffic. It has 18 gates, 14 of which have airbridges. Terminal 3 is currently working to expand capacity from its current throughput of 4.7 million to over 5 million passengers per year.

Air Southwest (Bristol, Cardiff, Newquay, Plymouth)
American Airlines (Boston [seasonal], Chicago-O'Hare, Miami [seasonal])
bmi (Aberdeen, Antigua, Barbados, Chicago-O'Hare, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Las Vegas, London-Heathrow, Toulouse)
- bmibaby (Alicante, Belfast-International, Bordeaux, Cork, Geneva, Knock, Jersey, Malaga, Newquay, Palma de Mallorca, Perpignan, Prague)
British Airways (London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, New York-JFK)
- BA Connect (Aberdeen, Belfast-City, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Düsseldorf, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow, Hanover, Isle of Man, Jersey, Lyon, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Oslo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Salzburg, Southampton, Vienna)
- British Airways operated by GB Airways (Arrecife, Dubrovnik, Heraklion, Las Palmas, Malaga, Malta, Paphos, Salzburg, Tenerife -South)
- British Airways operated by Sun Air of Scandinavia (Billund)
Eastern Airways (Inverness)
Finnair (Helsinki)
SN Brussels Airlines (Brussels)
VLM Airlines (Antwerp, London-City, Luxembourg)

[edit] Cargo airlines

As well as a key passenger airport, the airport is also used for cargo traffic, at the cargo centre on the other side of the apron from Terminal 2.

In addition, large quantities of freight are carried from Manchester in the lower holds of passenger aircraft.

[edit] Ground transportation

The airport is about 20 minute drive from central Manchester on the M56 motorway with a dedicated link road from the motorway at Junction 5. Taxi ranks are situated by arrivals at all three terminals. Passengers driving to the airport can use the drop off and pick up areas or choose from a range of both short and long stay car parks situated both on and off site.

National Express operates a coach service serving the airport. The Manchester Urban Conurbation bus service also includes the airport. The airport has its own train station, Manchester Airport railway station, in the heart of the airport complex. The Skylink moving walkway links the station and the three terminal buildings. There are regular trains running between the airport station to Manchester Piccadilly Station, and stations all over northern England. Trains are operated either by Northern Rail or First Transpennine Express.

There are also plans in place to build a Metrolink light rail extension to the airport from Manchester Piccadilly.

Ground transportation within the airport is headed by Ringway Handling Services, GM Tony Lavan

[edit] Protest

Between 1997 and 1999 three protest camps were set up to oppose the building of the second runway, the felling of nearby trees on land owned by the National Trust and air transportation in general. Three different camps were set up Flywood, Authur's Wood[4] and Cedar's Wood. Swampy, a well known activist, was among many protestors.[5]

More than 100 acres of greenbelt land with 43 ponds, ancient woodland, 15 km of hedgerows, 21 buildings including four 17th Century Grade II listed buildings were destroyed in the building of Manchester Airport's second runway. However the Grade II listed buildings were carefully taken down piece by piece and were re-constructed nearby, and over £20m was spent on environmental restoration and protection.

[edit] Non Passenger Attractions

Manchester airport is one of the most popular airports in the UK for aircraft observation. It features a nearby official "Viewing Park", just off the A538 on the western edge of the airfield, where British Airways Concorde G-BOAC, an Avro RJX and the forward fuselage of Monarch Airlines Douglas DC-10 G-DMCA are shown on static display, all of which can be boarded if booked in advance. Good views of the runways can be obtained, espically between 12:00 -and 15:00 when runway 24R/06L is used for both landings and departures, this being closest to the viewing area itself. The park also features a cafe, and a well stocked aviation shop selling related items such as, airband scanners, aircraft models books and stationery, and Concorde merchandise.

The Terminal 1 car park roof features another official viewing area. However, as of the 18th November 2006 this has been closed for resurfacing. The cafe and aviation shop located at this area will also be closed, with the aviation shop moving to Terminal 1 arrivals.

[edit] Trivia

Because of the length of its runways, the airport is able to handle large jets, including the Boeing 747-400, Airbus A340 and the Antonov An-124 and 225.

Manchester International Airport had been frequently used as a diversion airport for the Concorde if both Heathrow and Gatwick were experiencing bad weather.