manchester airport

Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) is set to fully reopen its terminal 3 from Friday 22nd April to cope with the growing demand for air travel as the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic ease. The terminal, which closed at the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic when air travel fell off a cliff, [read more]

The boss of Manchester Airports Group (MAG) Charlie Cornish has apologised to passengers for the queues and congestion and Manchester Airport in the last few weeks. The airport has suffered from staff shortages largely due to staff sickness and staff shortages. This has led to long queues for check-in, security [read more]

TUI Airways UK (BY/TOM) has announced it is increasing capacity to seven destinations from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) as well as basing an additional Boeing 737 there. The increase will see greater availability of the popular 10/11 night breaks to Greece, Palma, Cyprus, and Turkey for customers seeking longer than a [read more]

Manchester Airport Group (MAG) says it is expecting the February half-term to be one of the busiest periods it has had since the start of the Coronavirus pandemic. The group says it is expecting around 1.5 million passengers to pass through Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC), East Midlands Airport (EMA/EGNX) and London [read more]

Turkish flag carrier Turkish Airlines has announced two new destinations from Manchester Airport (MAN/EGCC) for the summer season. The airline is adding direct daily services to Antalya and Dalaman starting from the 1st and 2nd April respectively. Turkish Airlines already operates a twice-daily service the Istanbul from the northern gateway. [read more]

Iraqi Airways has officially taken delivery of its first Airbus A220 aircraft, the first of five it has on order. The aircraft, A220-300 YI-ARE, was delivered to Baghdad, Iraq on Friday 7th January from the Airbus assembly line in Mirabel Canada, stopping off at Manchester Airport in the early hours [read more]

Pakistan International Airlines (PK/PIA) is planning to resume flights to the UK this spring for the first time since it was banned from European & UK airspace six months last year. The ban came after it emerged that hundreds of PIA pilots had “dubious” licences with many having paid others [read more]

Budget airline easyJet (U2/EZY) and Virgin Atlantic have signed a deal through Worldwide by easyJet to interline passengers at Manchester, Edinburgh and Belfast airports. The deal means that passengers will be able to connect from domestic or European easyJet flights to seamlessly connect to long-haul flights bound for the US [read more]