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Manchester International Airport

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: ''There is also a Manchester Airport (US) Manchester Airport in the United States.'' {{Airport frame}} {{Airport title|name=Manchester International Airport|}} {{Airport image|airport_image=Gatewayatman.jpg|}} {{Airport infobox | IATA=MAN | ICAO=EGCC | type=public | run by= Manchester Airport Group MAG| closest town= Manchester| elevation_ft=257 | elevation_m= 78| coordinates=53° 21' 11" N 2° 16' 30" W }} {{Runway title}} {{Runway| runway_angle=06L/24R| runway_length_f=10,000| runway_length_m=3,048| runway_surface=Paved | }} {{Runway| runway_angle=06R/24L| runway_length_f=10,000| runway_length_m=3,048| runway_surface=Paved | }} {{Airport end frame}} '''Manchester International Airport ''' {{Airport codes|MAN|EGCC}} is an airport in Manchester Manchester, England. It is the third-busiest airport in the United Kingdom UK (after London Heathrow Airport Heathrow and London Gatwick Airport Gatwick) in terms of passengers per year. In 2005, the airport handled just over 22 million passengers [http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/80/airport_data_prov/200512/December_2005_Provisional_Airport_Statistics.pdf] and provided direct flights to over 180 destinations worldwide by over 95 airlines. It is owned by the Manchester Airport Group who own several other UK airports including Nottingham East Midlands Airport Nottingham East Midlands, Bournemouth Airport Bournemouth and Humberside Airport Humberside. Located on the boundary between Cheshire and Manchester in England, the airport, formerly known as Ringway, is the transatlantic hub for Bmi (airline) bmi, as well as a hub for British Airways and the charter airline MyTravel Airways MyTravel as well as many other United Kingdom British carriers. It has two parallel runways, three adjacent terminals and a railway station. It was once the centre of operations of Cargolux's charter airline venture, Lion Air. One of the British Airways Concorde supersonic airliners taken out of service earlier in the same month arrived at Manchester Airport on 31 October 2003 for use as a static display. Because of the length of its runways, the airport is able to handle large jets, including the Airbus A340 and the Boeing Boeing 747 747. For this reason, Manchester airport was frequently used as a diversion airport for Concorde if London Heathrow Airport Heathrow and London Gatwick Airport Gatwick were fogbound.

Security
Manchester Airport is policed and secured by Greater Manchester Police. In 2002, a security firm successfully smuggled fake explosives, detonators and genuine firearms onto a flight. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1810345.stm] In 2004, the BBC's Whistleblower program revealed a series of security failures at the airport, including faulty metal detectors and a lack of regular random baggage checks. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/3629336.stm] In 2005, after being spotted acting suspiciously, police used a taser to shoot a man on the apron, after he appeared to resist arrest. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/manchester/4274516.stm]

Terminals
Manchester International Airport has 3 terminals.

Terminal 1
Terminal One is mostly used by non British Airways BA international traffic. It is also the terminal used as the base for MyTravel Airways MyTravel and Jet2.com who each have a separate check-in on the lower level. It has 24 stands, 18 of which have airbridges (Gates refer to those accessible from the piers). It opened in 1952 and will have to be removed in 2010 due to the fact it is overburdened. *Aegean Airlines (Athens) *Aer Arann (Galway, Kerry, Waterford) *Aer Lingus (Dublin) *Air Atlanta Europe (Dalaman, Larnaca, Las Vegas, Orlando-Sanford, Paphos, Puerto Plata) *Air Baltic (Riga) *Air Berlin (Berlin-Tegel, Dusseldorf, Hamburg, Paderborn, London-Stansted) *Air Canada (Toronto) '''From 16 June 2006''' *Air Scandic (Alicante, Cape Town, Corfu, Dalaman, Durban, Faro, Heraklion, Kefalonia, Kos, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Malaga, Sharm-el-Sheikh, Palma de Mallorca, Preveza, Rhodes, Tenerife, Thessalonika) *Air Transat (Calgary, Toronto, Vancouver) *Aurigny Air Services (Guernsey) *Austrian (airline) Austrian Airlines (Innsbruck) *BH Air Balkan Holiday (Burgas, Sofia, Varna) *Blue1 (Helsinki) *Bmi (airline) bmi - International (Alicante, Antigua, Barbados, Bridgetown, Burgas, Chicago-O'Hare, Corfu, Faro, Grenoble, Heraklion, Las Vegas, Malaga, Mitilini, Paphos, Preveza, St. Lucia, Tenerife, Toronto, Toulouse, Washington-Dulles) *bmibaby (Alicante, Belfast-International, Bordeaux, Cork, Jersey, Knock, Malaga, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Prague) *City Airline (Gothenburg, Helsinki) *Cyprus Airways (Larnaca, Paphos) *European Air Charter (Alicante, Almeria, Dalaman, Dubrovnik, Faro, Figari, Heraklion, Jerez, Kefalonia, Khania, Lanzarote, Lourdes, Mahon, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Preveza, Pula, Rhodes, Santorini, Skiathos, Tenerife, Venice, Volos, Zakynthos) *Estonian Air (Tallinn) *Etihad Airways (Abu Dhabi) *Fly Air (Dalaman) *Flybe (Belfast City, Chambery, Exeter, Guernsey, Jersey, Southampton) *Flyjet (Corfu, Heraklion, Hurghada, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Malaga, Paphos, Tenerife) *Futura Airlines Futura International (Heraklion, Mahon, Tenerife) *Hapag Lloyd Express (Cologne/Bonn, Stuttgart) *Helios Airways (Paphos) *Hellas Jet (Athens) *Icelandair (Keflavik '''From 7 April 2006''') *Jet2.com (Alicante, Amsterdam, Chambery, Budapest, Edinburgh, Faro, Geneva, Ibiza, London-Gatwick, Malaga, Murcia, Nice, Palma, Pisa, Rome-Ciampino, Valencia) *Kıbrıs Türk Hava Yolları (Dalaman) *LOT Polish Airlines (Warsaw) *Lufthansa (Dusseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich) *Luxair (Dublin, Luxembourg) *Monarch Airlines (Alicante, Barcelona, Bodrum, Bridgetown, Catania, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Gibraltar, Goa, Grenoble, Holguin, Ibiza, Khania, Kos, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Luxor, Mahon, Malaga, Male, Naples, Orlando Sanford, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Reus, Rhodes, Tenerife, Varadero, Venice, Zakynthos) *MyTravel Airways (Agadir, Alicante, Almeria, Antalya, Banjul, Bridgetown, Bergamo, Bodrum, Burgas, Calgary, Cancun, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Geneva, Gerona, Goa, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kalamata, Kefalonia, Kos, La Romana, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Las Vegas, Mahon, Malaga, Male, Malta, Mitilini, Monastir, Montego Bay, Murcia, Naples, Orlando Sanford, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Puerto Plata, Pula, Reus, Rhodes, Rimini, Salzburg, Tenerife, Thessalonika, Toronto, Toulouse, Turin, Venice, Zakynthos) *Nouvelair Tunisia (Monastir) *Olympic Airlines (Athens) *Portugália (Lisbon) *Ryanair (Dublin, Shannon) *Saga (Istanbul) *Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm) *SkyEurope (Bratislava, Krakow, Warsaw, Katowice) *Skyservice (Toronto) *Skyways (Stockholm) *Spanair (Lanzarote, Mahon, Palma de Mallorca) *Swiss International Airlines (Basle, Zurich) *Thomas Cook Airlines (Alicante, Almeria, Antalya, Banjul, Bridgetown, Bodrum, Burgas, Calgary, Cancun, Catania, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Gerona, Heraklion, Holguin, Ibiza, Innsbruck, Izmir, Jardines del Ray, Jerez, Kefalonia, Kos, Las Palma, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Lyon, Mahon, Malaga, Malta, Monastir, Naples, Orlando Sanford, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Reus, Rhodes, Salzburg, Samos, Santorini, Sharm-el-Sheikh, Skiathos, Sofia, Thessalonika, Toronto, Toulouse, Turin, Zakynthos) *Turkish Airlines (Istanbul)

Terminal 2
Terminal 2 is used mostly by long haul and charter traffic. A few European Airlines such as KLM and Air Malta also operate flights out of the Terminal. It opened in 1993. It has 15 gates, of which 14 have airbridges (Gates refer to those accessible from the piers). *Adria Airways (Ljubljana) *Air Blue (Lahore) '''From 15 May 2006''', (Karachi) '''From June 2006''' *Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaullel *Air Malta (Malta, Tenerife South) *Alitalia (Milan-Malpensa) *Atlasjet (Istanbul, Ankara) *Astraeus (Agadir, Banjul, Bergamo, Bodrum, Brescia, Bucharest, Calvi, Catania, Chambery, Corfu, Dalaman, Dubrovnik, Innsbruck, Kavalla, Kefalonia, Malta, Mitilini, Murcia, Olbia, Preveza, Rhodes, Salzburg, Samos, Skiathos, Taba, Varna, Venice, Zakynthos) *Azzurra Air (Athens, Corfu, Faro, Fuerteventura, Kalamata, Kavalla, Khania, Kos, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Mikonos, Zakynthos) *Biman Bangladesh (Dhaka, New York-JFK)'''Future Route''' *Britannia Airways (Alicante, Almeria, Bodrum, Bridgetown, Burgas, Cancun, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Geneva, Gerona, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kavalla, Kefalonia, Keflavik, Khania, Kos, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Luxor, Lyon, Mahon, Malaga, Male, Malta, Monastir, Naples, Orlando Sanford, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Pisa, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Reus, Rhodes, Salzburg, Sharm-el-Sheikh, Sofia, Tenerife, Thessalonika, Toulouse, Turin, Varna, Venice, Verona, Zakynthos) *Bulgaria Air (Sofia) *BWIA West Indies Airways (Bridgetown, Port of Spain) *Continental Airlines (Newark) *Croatia Airlines (Dubrovnik, Pula, Split) *CSA Czech Airlines (Prague) *Delta Air Lines (Atlanta, New York-JFK '''From 15 May 2006''') *Emirates (Dubai) *Eurocypria Airlines (Larnaca, Paphos) *Excel Airways (Alicante, Almeria, Antalya, Athens, Barcelona, Bodrum, Brescia, Bridgetown, Cagliari, Calgary, Chambery, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Geneva, Goa, Kalamata, Khania, Kos, Lanzarote, Larnaca, Las Palmas, Lisbon, Lourdes, Mahon, Malaga, Malta, Mikonos, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Porlamar, Preveza, Rhodes, Rome-Ciampino, Salzburg, Samos, Santorini, Sharm-el-Sheikh, Skiathos, Split, Taba, Tel Aviv, Tenerife, Thessalonika, Verona, Zakynthos) *First Choice Airways (Alicante, Almeria, Antalya, Banjul, Bodrum, Burgas, Cancun, Corfu, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Funchal, Geneva, Gerona, Grenoble, Heraklion, Ibiza, Innsbruck, Kefalonia, Khania, Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Mahon, Malaga, Malta, Mitilini, Monastir, Montego Bay, Naples, Orlando Sanford, Ovda, Palma de Mallorca, Porlamar, Preveza, Puerto Plata, Punta Cana, Reus, Rhodes, Skiathos, Tenerife, Thessalonika, Toulouse, Turin, Varna, Venice, Verona, Zakynthos) *Freebird (Bodrum) *Inter Airlines (Antalya) *InterSky (Berne) *KLM (Amsterdam) *LTE International Airways (Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife) *Maersk Air (Copenhagen) *Mahan Air (Tehran-Imam Khomeini) *Malaysia Airlines (Kuala Lumpur) *Onur Air (Bodrum, Dalaman, Istanbul) *Pakistan International Airlines (Chicago-O'Hare, Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, New York-JFK, Houston-Intercontinental) *Pegasus Airlines (Dalaman) *Qatar Airways (Doha) *Singapore Airlines (Zurich, Singapore) *Syrian Arab Airlines Syrian Air (Damascus, London-Heathrow) *US Airways (Philadelphia) *Viking Airlines (Athens) *Virgin Atlantic Airways (Bridgetown, Orlando, St Lucia (starts 16 November 2006)) *Zoom Airlines (Vancouver, Toronto, Calgary)

Terminal 3
Terminal 3 was formerly known as terminal 1 domestic, before being revamped and renamed in the late 1990s when BA decided Manchester should be one of the Airline hub hubs for their BA Connect service . It is part of Terminal 1, it is primarilly used for British Airways, Oneworld (airlines) oneworld and domestic traffic. It has 18 gates, 14 of which have airbridges (Gates refer to those accessible from the piers). *Air Southwest (Bristol, Plymouth) *American Airlines (Boston, Chicago-O'Hare, Miami) *Bmi (airline) bmi - domestic (Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, London-Heathrow) *British Airways (London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow, New York-JFK) *British Airways operated by GB Airways (Dubrovnik, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Lanzarote, Malaga, Malta, Marrakech, Paphos, Tenerife South) *British Airways operated by Sun Air of Scandinavia (Billund) *BA Connect (Aberdeen, Belfast-City, Berlin-Tegel, Brussels, Cork, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Frankfurt, Geneva, Glasgow, Hanover, Isle of Man, Jersey, Knock, Lyon, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Oslo, Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Southampton, Vienna) *Eastern Airways (Inverness, Norwich) *Finnair (Helsinki) *SN Brussels Airlines (Brussels) *VLM Airlines VLM (London-City)

Cargo Airlines
As well as a key passenger airport, MAN is also used for cargo traffic, at the cargo centre on the other side of the apron from Terminal 2. *Air Hong Kong *Cargolux *China Airlines China Airlines Cargo *Dragonair (airline) Dragonair *Federal Express *Malaysia Airlines MAS Kargo

Ground Transportation
The airport is about 20 minutes drive from central Manchester on the M56 motorway M56 motorway with a dedicated link road from the motorway at junction 5. Taxi ranks are situated by arrivals at all three terminals. For long-distance travel by road, it is more cost effective to hire a chauffeur-driven car on the Internet. If driving to the airport passengers can use the drop off and pick up areas or choose from a range of both short and long stay car parks situated on site and off airport. The best way to pay for the short stay car park is by using a credit or debit card at the exit barrier. This saves waiting at the machines inside the terminal. National Express runs coaches from all over the UK to terminals one and two. If travelling from terminal 3 the bus stop at terminal one should be used, there are also urban bus links to the Manchester Urban Cornubation. There is a train station in the heart of the airport complex. The Skylink moving walkway links the station and the three terminal buildings. There are regular trains running between the airport station, Manchester Piccadilly, Manchester's main station, and stations all over northern England. Trains are operated either by Northern Rail or First Transpennine Express. There are also plans in place to build a Manchester_Metrolink Metrolink light rail extension to the airport from Manchester Piccadilly.

Protest
Between 1997 and 1999 three protest camps were set up to oppose the building of the second runway, the felling of nearby trees on land owned by the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty National Trust and air transportation in general. Three different camps were set up Flywood, Authur's Wood[http://members.aol.com/pp3office/arthpr.htm] and Cedar's Wood. One protester spent 3 weeks in an underground tunnel during eviction others stayed in Tree sitting treehouses, Swampy was among many protestors.[http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/travel/runway2_history..html][http://www.eco-action.org/dod/no6/battle_star.htm][http://www.eco-action.org/dod/no8/camping.html][http://www.eco-action.org/dod/no9/camps.html] More than 1000 acres of greenbelt land with 43 ponds, ancient woodland, 15 km of hedgerows, 21 buildings including four 17th Century Grade II listed buildings were destroyed in the building of Manchester Airport's second runway.

See also
*Manchester air disaster (1985) *RAF Ringway

External links

- Manchester International Airport Homepage
- Guardian Article: Eco-warriors win propaganda battle
- Guardian Article: Sell-out claim as trust agrees to fell trees
- AirportWatch {{UKAirports}} Category:Airports in England Manchester Airport Category:Transport in Greater Manchester Category:Protests de:Flughafen Manchester sv:Manchester International Airport

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