Manchester International Airport

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There is also a Manchester Airport in the United States.

Template:Airport frame Template:Airport title Template:Airport image Template:Airport infobox Template:Runway title Template:Runway Template:Runway Template:Airport end frame Manchester International Airport Template:Airport codes is an airport in Manchester, England. It is the third-busiest airport in the UK (after Heathrow and Gatwick) in terms of passengers per year. In 2005, the airport handled just over 22 million passengers [1] and provided direct flights to over 180 destinations worldwide by over 95 airlines. It is owned by the Manchester Airport Group who own several other UK airports including Nottingham East Midlands, Bournemouth and Humberside.

Located on the boundary between Cheshire and Manchester in England, the airport, formerly known as Ringway, is the transatlantic hub for bmi, as well as a hub for British Airways and the charter airline MyTravel as well as many other British carriers. It has two parallel runways, three adjacent terminals and a railway station. It was once the centre of operations of Cargolux's charter airline venture, Lion Air.

One of the British Airways Concorde supersonic airliners taken out of service earlier in the same month arrived at Manchester Airport on 31 October 2003 for use as a static display.

Because of the length of its runways, the airport is able to handle large jets, including the Airbus A340 and the Boeing 747. For this reason, Manchester airport was frequently used as a diversion airport for Concorde if Heathrow and Gatwick were fogbound.

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Security

Manchester Airport is policed and secured by Greater Manchester Police.

In 2002, a security firm successfully smuggled fake explosives, detonators and genuine firearms onto a flight. [2]

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. [3]

In 2005, after being spotted acting suspiciously, police used a taser to shoot a man on the apron, after he appeared to resist arrest. [4]

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Terminals

Manchester International Airport has 3 terminals.

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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 1952.

  • Aer Arann (Scheduled) (Angers, From 27 April, Galway, Kerry, Waterford)
  • Aer Lingus (Scheduled) (Dublin)
  • Air Atlanta Europe (Charter) (Orlando-Sanford, Sharm-El-Sheik, Tenerife)
  • Air Baltic (Scheduled) (Riga)
  • Air Berlin (Scheduled) (Hamburg, Paderborn, London-Stansted)
  • Air Blue (Scheduled) (Islamabad) From 15 May 2006
  • Air Canada (Scheduled) (Toronto) From 16 June 2006
  • Air Transat (Scheduled) (Toronto, Vancouver)
  • Aurigny Air Services (Scheduled) (Guernsey)
  • Austrian Airlines (Charter) (Bolzano, Innsbruck)
  • Balkan Holiday Air (Charter) (Burgas, Plovdiv, Sofia, Varna)
  • bmi British Midland (Scheduled) Internatonal (Antigua, Barbados, Chicago, Las Vegas, St Lucia, Toulouse)
  • City Airline (Scheduled) (Gothenburg)
  • Cyprus Airways (Scheduled) (Larnaca, Paphos)
  • Estonian Air (Scheduled) (Tallinn)
  • Etihad Airways (Scheduled) (Abu Dhabi)
  • Flybe (Scheduled) (Belfast City, Exeter, Norwich, Southampton)
  • Flyjet (Charter) (Arrecife, Corfu, Dalaman, Heraklion, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Eilat-Ovda, Paphos, Rhodes, Sharm-El-Sheik, Tenerife, Thessalonika)
  • Futura International (Charter) (Alicante, Arrecife, Dalaman, Glasgow, Ibiza, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Mahon, Palma, Reus, Tenerife)
  • Greece Airways (Charter) (Alicante, Barcelona, Gerona, Malaga, Palma)
  • Hapag Lloyd Express (Scheduled) (Cologne-Bonn, Hanover, Stuttgart)
  • Helios Airways (Scheduled) (Larnaca, Paphos)
  • Icelandair (Scheduled) (Reykjavik)
  • Jet2.com (Scheduled) (Alicante, Amsterdam, Budapest, Chambery, Edinburgh, Faro, Figari, Geneva, Ibiza, Lamezia, London-Gatwick, Malaga, Murcia, Nice, Palma, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino, Valencia)
  • Kıbrıs Türk Hava Yolları (Scheduled) (Antalya, Dalaman, Ercan)
  • LOT Polish Airlines (Scheduled) (Warsaw)
  • Lufthansa (Scheduled) (Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich)
  • Luxair (Scheduled) (Dublin, Luxembourg)
  • Monarch Airlines (Charter) (Arrecife,Bodrum, Calgary, Cancun, Catania, Chania, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Goa, Grenoble, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kittila, Kos, Las Palmas, Lisbon, Luxor, Mahon, Male, Manchester, Naples, Orlando-Sanford, Palma, Paphos, Preveza, Punta Cana, Rhodes, Salzburg, Skiathos, Sofia, Tenerife, Thessalonika, Venice, Zakynthos)
  • Monarch Airlines (Scheduled) (Alicante, Almeria, Barcelona, Faro, Gibraltar, Mahon, Malaga, Palma, Tenerife)
  • MyTravel Airways (Charter) (Agadir, Alicante, Almeria, Antalya, Arrecife, Bergamo, Bodrum, Bucharest, Bargus, Cancun, Corfu, Dalaman, Djerba, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gerona, Goa, Grenoble, Heraklion, Hurghada, Ibiza, Kalamata, Kefalonia, Kos, La Romana, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Las Vegas, London-Gatwick, Luxor, Mahon, Malaga, Male, Malta, Monastir, Montego Bay, Naples, Orlando-Sanford, Palma, Paphos, Puerto Plata, Reus, Rhodes, Rimini, Salvador, Salzburg, Sharm-El-Sheik, Tenerife, Toronto, Turin, Vancouver, Varadero, Zakynthos)
  • Norwegian Air Shuttle (Scheduled) (Bergen)
  • Nouvelair Tunisia (Charter) (Djerba)
  • Olympic Airlines (Scheduled) (Athens)
  • Private Air (Charter) (Istanbul)
  • Ryanair (Scheduled) (Dublin, Shannon)
  • Scandinavian Airlines System (Scheduled) (Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm)
  • SkyEurope (Scheduled) (Bratislava, Krakow, Salzburg)
  • Spanair (Charter) (Mahon)
  • Swiss International Airlines (Scheduled) (Zurich)
  • Thomas Cook Airlines (Alicante, Almeria, Antalya, Banjul, Bridgetown, Bodrum, Burgas, Calgary, Cancun, Catania, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gerona, Heraklion, Holguin, Ibiza, Innsbruck, Izmir, Jardines del Ray, Jerez, Kefalonia, Kos, Las Palma, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Lyon, Mahon, Malaga, Malta, Monastir, Naples, Orlando Sanford, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Reus, Rhodes, Salzburg, Samos, Santorini, Sharm-el-Sheikh, Skiathos, Sofia, Thessalonika, Toronto, Toulouse, Turin, Zakynthos)
  • Turkish Airlines (Istanbul)
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Terminal 2

Terminal 2 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 opened in 1993. It has 15 gates, of which 14 have airbridges (Gates refer to those accessible from the piers).


  • Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
  • Air Malta (Malta, Tenerife South)
  • Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa)
  • Atlasjet (Istanbul, Ankara)
  • Astraeus (Agadir, Banjul, Bergamo, Bodrum, Brescia, Bucharest, Calvi, Catania, Chambery, Corfu, Dalaman, Dubrovnik, Innsbruck, Kavalla, Kefalonia, Malta, Mitilini, Murcia, Olbia, Preveza, Rhodes, Salzburg, Samos, Skiathos, Taba, Varna, Venice, Zakynthos)
  • Azzurra Air (Athens, Corfu, Faro, Fuerteventura, Kalamata, Kavalla, Khania, Kos, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Mikonos, Zakynthos)
  • Biman Bangladesh (Dhaka, Dubai, New York-JFK)
  • Britannia Airways (Alicante, Almeria, Bodrum, Bridgetown, Burgas, Cancun, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Geneva, Gerona, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kavalla, Kefalonia, Keflavik, Khania, Kos, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Luxor, Lyon, Mahon, Malaga, Male, Malta, Monastir, Naples, Orlando Sanford, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Pisa, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Reus, Rhodes, Salzburg, Sharm-el-Sheikh, Sofia, Tenerife, Thessalonika, Toulouse, Turin, Varna, Venice, Verona, Zakynthos)
  • Bulgaria Air (Sofia)
  • BWIA West Indies Airways (Bridgetown, Port of Spain)
  • Continental Airlines (Newark)
  • Croatia Airlines (Dubrovnik, Pula, Split)
  • CSA Czech Airlines (Prague)
  • Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York-JFK From 15 May 2006)
  • Emirates (Dubai)
  • Eurocypria Airlines (Larnaca, Paphos)
  • Excel Airways (Alicante, Almeria, Antalya, Athens, Barcelona, Bodrum, Brescia, Bridgetown, Cagliari, Calgary, Chambery, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Geneva, Goa, Kalamata, Khania, Kos, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Lisbon, Lourdes, Mahon, Malaga, Malta, Mikonos, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Porlamar, Preveza, Rhodes, Rome-Ciampino, Salzburg, Samos, Santorini, Sharm-el-Sheikh, Skiathos, Split, Taba, Tel Aviv, Tenerife, Thessalonika, Verona, Zakynthos)
  • First Choice Airways (Alicante, Almeria, Antalya, Banjul, Bodrum, Burgas, Cancun, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Geneva, Gerona, Grenoble, Heraklion, Ibiza, Innsbruck, Kefalonia, Khania, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Mahon, Malaga, Malta, Mitilini, Monastir, Montego Bay, Naples, Orlando Sanford, Eilat Ovda, Palma de Mallorca, Porlamar, Preveza, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Reus, Rhodes, Skiathos, Tenerife, Thessalonika, Toulouse, Turin, Varna, Venice, Verona, Zakynthos)
  • Freebird (Bodrum)
  • Inter Airlines (Antalya)
  • InterSky (Berne)
  • KLM (Amsterdam)
  • LTE International Airways (Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife)
  • Maersk Air (Copenhagen)
  • Mahan Air (Tehran-Imam Khomeini)
  • Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur to End of April 2006
  • Onur Air (Bodrum, Dalaman, Istanbul)
  • Pakistan International Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, New York-JFK, Houston-Intercontinental)
  • Pegasus Airlines (Dalaman)
  • Qatar Airways (Doha)
  • Singapore Airlines (Zurich, Singapore)
  • Syrian Air (Damascus, London-Heathrow)
  • US Airways (Philadelphia)
  • Viking Airlines (Athens)
  • Virgin Atlantic Airways (Bridgetown, Orlando, St Lucia (starts 16 November 2006))
  • Zoom Airlines (Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary)
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Terminal 3

Terminal 3 was formerly known as terminal 1 domestic, before being revamped and renamed in the late 1990s when BA decided Manchester should be one of the hubs for their BA Connect service . It is part of Terminal 1, it is primarilly used for British Airways, oneworld and domestic traffic. It has 18 gates, 14 of which have airbridges (Gates refer to those accessible from the piers).

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Cargo Airlines

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

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Ground Transportation

The airport is about 20 minutes 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. For long-distance travel by road, it is more cost effective to hire a chauffeur-driven car on the Internet. If driving to the airport passengers can use the drop off and pick up areas or choose from a range of both short and long stay car parks situated on site and off airport. The best way to pay for the short stay car park is by using a credit or debit card at the exit barrier. This saves waiting at the machines inside the terminal.

National Express runs coaches from all over the UK to terminals one and two. If travelling from terminal 3 the bus stop at terminal one should be used, there are also urban bus links to the Manchester Urban Cornubation. 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.

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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[5] and Cedar's Wood. One protester spent 3 weeks in an underground tunnel during eviction others stayed in treehouses, Swampy was among many protestors.[6][7][8][9]

More than 1000 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.

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See also

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External links


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