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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.
Kuala Lumpur International Airport: Kuala Lumpur: Malaysia: 3 KUL/WMKK Incheon International Airport: Incheon: South Korea: 4 ICN/RKSI Indira Gandhi International Airport: Delhi: India: 4 DEL/VIDP [4] Although runway 27/09 is not magnetically aligned with the other runways, existing approaches permit triple parallel operations. Istanbul Airport ...
The burned wreckage of British Airtours Flight 28M on runway 24 at Manchester International Airport in August 1985. 22 August 1985: British Airtours Flight 28M bound for Corfu International Airport in Greece caught fire on the runway at Manchester International Airport prior to takeoff. 55 people on board were killed.
Manchester Airport High Speed Station [1] was a planned High Speed 2 station at Manchester Airport, on the southern boundary of Manchester, England, next to Junction 5 of the M56 motorway on the northern side of the airport 1.5 miles (2.4 km) north-west of Manchester Airport railway station. [2] In 2023 plans to build the line were dropped.
Many cities are served by more than one airport, typically to avoid congestion, and where there may be factors preventing expansion of existing airports. In other cities, multiple airports may be built to cater for different uses, such as international and domestic flights.
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A new airport site at Ringway, eight miles south of Manchester city centre, was selected from several alternatives, and this was to become the site of the RAF station by early 1940. Construction of the all-grass airfield began in late 1935, and the first (westerly) portion opened in June 1937 for use by Fairey Aviation. The remaining airfield ...
G-BGJL nicknamed "River Orrin", the aircraft involved, seen at the accident airport, Manchester Airport, in 1982, while still in its previous liveryThe 1985 Manchester Airport disaster occurred when British Airtours Flight 28M (officially known as Flight 328), an international passenger flight, was en route from Manchester Airport to Corfu International Airport.