The Airport At A Glance
- More than 22 million passengers pass through Manchester Airport every year
- Direct flights to 220 destinations worldwide – more than any other UK airport
- More UK and Ireland routes than any other UK or Ireland Airport
- Largest Airport outside London
- More than 19,000 people are directly employed on site
- The Airport supports 42.500 jobs in the North West
- Generates £1,004 million per year for the North West economy – this amount is expected to have doubled by 2030.
- More than 100 airlines operate from Manchester Airport
- Only wholly public-owned Airport group in the UK
- The Airport is committed to becoming carbon neutral by 2015
- One third of the UK population is within a travel time of two hours
- Two runways, three terminals, 42 air bridges, 254 check-in desks, more than 500 toilets and 940 information screens
- Manchester Airport officially opened in June 1938
- Runway 2 officially opened in February 2001 by Tony Blair
- Terminal 1 opened in 1962 by the Duke of Edinburgh
- Terminal 2 opened by the Duke of Edinburgh in 1993
- Diana Princess of Wales opened Terminal A, which is now a part of Terminal 3, in 1989
- There are over 120 shops and restaurants at the Airport
- Passengers drink an average of one million pints of beer, eat 300,000 breakfasts and more than 3 million hot drinks every year
- More than 1.5 million bottles of water and 40,000 bottles of champagne, 1.8 million books and over a million packs of cigarettes are bought by passengers every year in the Airport’s shops
- Manchester Airport has three bat barns to house thousands of Pipistrelle, Brown Long-eared and Brandt’s bats. It has also built badger sets, a mammal tunnel under the second runway and has 92 ponds full of newts, toads, frogs and insects
- There are seven hotels at Manchester Airport
- Manchester Airport has eight public car parks with 15,595 spaces and eight staff car parks with 5,535 spaces
- More than 380,000 shrubs are planted in the landscaped areas around T2 alone
- More than a quarter of a million people visit Manchester Airport’s Aviation Viewing Park every year
- The Terminal 2 baggage system is 4 kilometres in length and handles 20,065 bags on an average day
- Manchester Airport is home to the now retired Concorde 204 G-BOAC, the flagship of the British Airways fleet
- Manchester Airport is one of the UK’s largest art sponsors. More than £8 million has been donated over the Airport’s history
