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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.
Type A Operating Licence holders [1]; Airline Image IATA ICAO Callsign Remarks 2Excel Aviation: BRO: BROADSWORD: AirTanker: 9L: TOW: TOWLINE: Operates a fleet of 14 Airbus A330 MRTT for the Royal Air Force, known as Voyager, under a 27-year contract to the UK Government; its call sign is a nod to its primary role of aerial refuelling tankers.
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.
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.
British Airways serves destinations across all six inhabited continents. Following is a list of destinations the airline flies to, as of March 2024; terminated destinations are also listed.
On July 31, 1973, Delta Air Lines Flight 723 from Burlington, Vermont, to Boston was diverted to Manchester to pick up passengers stranded by a flight cancellation. After leaving Manchester it continued to Boston, but during landing there the McDonnell Douglas DC-9-31 hit a sea wall at the end of Runway 4, killing 83 passengers and six crew.
Until 2020, the Boeing 747-400 was scheduled on flights to Boston by British Airways. [23] Lufthansa operated Boeing 747s, including the latest-model Boeing 747-8, on its daily nonstop flights to Frankfurt. [24] Terminal E was the second-largest international arrivals facility in the United States when it opened in 1974. [25]
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]