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Manchester Airport (IATA: MAN, ICAO: EGCC) is an international airport in Ringway, Manchester, England, 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Manchester city centre. [1] [3] In 2022, it was the third busiest airport in the United Kingdom in terms of passengers (the busiest outside of London) and the 19th-busiest airport in Europe in 2023, with 28.1 million passengers served.
Manchester Airport station is a railway, tram, bus and coach station at Manchester Airport, England which opened at the same time as the second air terminal in 1993.The station is 9 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (15.7 km) south of Manchester Piccadilly, at the end of a short branch from the Styal line via a triangular junction between Heald Green and Styal stations.
As of January 2018, trams operate from Manchester Airport every 12 minutes, and terminate at Manchester Victoria in the City Zone. [11] At opening, Airport Line services had terminated at Cornbrook and later Deansgate-Castlefield due to lack of capacity through the city-centre, which was remedied by the opening of the second city crossing. [12]
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Manchester Airports Group, known as MAG is a British airport operator which owns three British airports: Manchester Airport, East Midlands Airport, and Stansted Airport. The Group operates under Manchester Airports Holdings Limited, a holding company owned by the ten metropolitan borough councils of Greater Manchester , and Australian ...
8 March 1927: view (from south) of countryside where Manchester Airport is now; Mid 1934: Manchester Airport's present site was chosen to build an airfield, [1] as Barton Aerodrome was considered unsuitable for larger aircraft. 25 July 1934: Manchester City Council voted narrowly in favour of the Ringway site as the city's new airport. [2]
Manchester has an urban light rail / tram system called Manchester Metrolink. Operated by a Keolis Amey consortium, Metrolink links the city centre to termini in Altrincham, Ashton-under-Lyne, Bury, Didsbury, Eccles, Manchester Airport, Rochdale and at The Trafford Centre. It is a high-frequency service, with trams running 5 times an hour on ...
The bus station is also served by night buses because of its location near the Printworks and Free bus around the city Route 2. Coach services are operated by Flixbus and Megabus . In April 2009, the Manchester Megabus stop moved from the Chorlton Street coach station to Shudehill Interchange.