Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) is nearing a 28 million passenger record for the rolling 12 month period thanks to continued growth at the North of England hub. January’s passenger figures saw the UK’s 3rd largest airport hit 27,790,196 for the rolling 12 months, an increase of 7.45% compared the previous period. The [read more]
Ryanair has announced a major expansion at Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) today including more based aircraft and new routes. The Irish low-cost carrier (LCC) will now base 3 additional Boeing 737-800 aircraft at the airport in the summer, stating in June. In addition to the based aircraft, Ryanair also announced 10 [read more]
Turkish Airlines is increasing capacity at Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) on its service to Istanbul’s Ataturk Airport (IST/LTBA) The airline will switch the 3-weekly TK1995 / TK1996 service from a Boeing 737 to an Airbus A330 for Summer 2018. The switch happens on 4th June lasting until 14th September. Turkish Airlines [read more]
Singapore Airlines is celebrating 1 year of using the Airbus A350 at Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC). The state-of-the-art aircraft from European planemaker Airbus first arrived to operate the non-stop Manchester-Houston route on 17 January 2017 and was the first commercial A350 flight from the Airport. The A350 aircraft was a welcome addition [read more]
2017 has been one to celebrate for Manchester as it bags all four of the key best UK Airport awards including Travel Weekly, Travel Bulletin, Travel Trade Gazette and Selling Travel. The year started with the first award being collected in January at Travel Weekly’s Globe Awards in London for [read more]
With drones continuing to be high on many people’s Christmas lists this year, Manchester Airport is warning users of the dangers they pose to aircraft after a spate of incidents this year. The airport has seen incidents involving drones in the airspace around Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) rise by 113% in [read more]
Virgin Atlantic is changing some A330 routes at Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) to the smaller -200 version in 2018. Starting from March ’18, flights from Manchester to Atlanta (ATL/KATL) and New York (JFK/KJFK) will use the smaller Airbus A330 variant and from May ’18, Barbados (BGI/TBPB), Boston (BOS/KBOS) and San Francisco (SFO/KSFO) [read more]
The UK’s Department for Transport (DfT) has agreed to a 50% increase in permitted flights to China raising the potential weekly flights from 100 to 150. The move is designed to allow for a huge expansion in routes and capacity for flights to China from the UK. One of the [read more]
Thomas Cook Airlines (UK) (MT/TCX) is planning to launch a service from Manchester to Marrakech starting in winter 2018. The UK holiday airline will operate the service twice-weekly using one of the airlines A321 aircraft. Marrakech is the 4th largest city in Morocco and is home one of the best Medinas [read more]
Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) has recorded 3.1% growth in this autumn period with over 2.4m passengers using the airport. The news comes on the back of the busiest summer ever for the Northern Hub and brings the rolling 12 month total to 27.7m passengers, up 10.5% on the previous 12 months. [read more]
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