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Airport Wrapped

2024

Welcome to Airport Wrapped 2024

2024 has been another great year for Manchester Airport, and we’ve loved being on every step of the journey with you.

It's time to reveal how many passengers we’ve welcomed through our doors and we've even counted up the cups of coffee they've bought. And speaking of numbers, can you guess what this year's top five destinations were?

If you’re curious to know more, like which was the most popular food ordered by airport visitors in 2024? Then scroll through our latest 'year in review'.

We welcomed a total of

28.4m

PASSENGERS

Our top 5 destinations this year were:

1. DUBAI

2. AMSTERDAM

3. DUBLIN

4. TENERIFE

5. ALICANTE

Our passengers were thirsty and bought

4,463,358

CUPS OF COFFEE

We introduced some new routes:

Shanghai - Juneyao Air

Luxembourg - Luxair

Casablanca - Royal Air Maroc

Amman - Royal Jordanian

Las Vegas - Virgin Atlantic

The most popular food of 2024

fries and cheese & onion crisps

500 construction jobs

for MAN-TP phase two

8 new retail units

Krispy Kreme - T1

The Sculpts - T1

Little Flyers Zone - T1

The Evergreen - T2

Gaming Point - T1

Giraffe - T2

WHSmith pop up - T2

Pasta Evangelists - T2

We celebrated anniversaries:

Cathay Pacific

10 years

Finnair

30 years