Manchester Airport
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Manchester Airport (IATA: MAN, ICAO: EGCC; former Ringway Airport ) is an international airport in the northern English metropolitan county of Greater Manchester. He has more than 17 million passengers per year, the largest airport in the United Kingdom outside Greater London, and is supported by the Manchester Airports Group Plc. operated.
Operational bases in Manchester entertain the airlines Flybe, Ryanair, EasyJet, Monarch Airlines, Thomas Cook, Thomson Airways and Jet2.com.
History
During the Second World War, the Royal Air Force took advantage of the system under the name RAF Ringway.
Since 2003, a decommissioned British Airways Concorde is on display on the site. By changing the orientation of the magnetic field of the earth be renamed a runway identifier was required in 2007. After 66 years operating as a 06 /24 takes off and lands you since now on 05 / 23rd On 1 September 2010 landed for the first time an Airbus A380 of Emirates in Manchester, which has since regularly scheduled service drives so the airport.
Location and Transport
The airport is located about 18 km south of the city center of Manchester and is connected via the M65 Motorway. It also operate a number of bus services in the region, there has also been a significant busy airport railway station, from which offer different railway companies connected to the city center and other destinations within and outside Greater Manchester. The Manchester Metrolink light rail system will connect the airport from 2016 to the local traffic.
Equipment
The airport has two runways and start and three terminals (1, 2 and 3) for the passenger handling. In Manchester also large aircraft such as the Airbus A380 and Boeing 747 can be handled during normal operation.
Terminal 1
Terminal 1 was opened in 1962 and is currently after several expansions, most recently in 2009, with a capacity of about 11 million passengers per year, the largest of the three terminal buildings. It has 29 check-in positions, one of which is suitable for the Airbus A380 from Emirates. Around 30 airlines use Terminal 1, with easyJet, Jet2.com and Thomas Cook offer the most targets.
Terminal 2
Terminal 2, which is about 10 minutes walk from terminals 1 and 3, was opened in 1993 and has 20 check-in positions. In addition to about 15 other airlines Thomson Airways and Monarch are the primary users. The terminal was extensively modernized from 2007 to 2009.
Terminal 3
Terminal 3 ( previously Terminal 1A and Terminal 1 - British Airways) was opened in 1989 and is just east of Terminal 1, but now has no internal connection to Terminal 1 more. Among the approximately 13 airlines that use that terminal, Ryanair and Flybe are the primary users.
Airlines and destinations
From Manchester about 180 destinations from over 95 airlines serving worldwide. In addition to numerous inbound links and European destinations also several long-haul routes with a focus on North America are offered. For German-speaking countries, there were 2010 include the following compounds: Lufthansa flies from Frankfurt, Munich, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Stuttgart and Berlin, Singapore Airlines from Munich ( as a stopover coming from Singapore ), Swiss from Zurich, Basel and Geneva. In addition, easyJet also fly ( Berlin, Geneva, Hamburg, Munich), Flybe ( Dusseldorf, Geneva, Hanover ), German (Cologne, Stuttgart) and Jet2.com (Salzburg, Geneva ) from the German speaking to Manchester.