Manchester Airport Mini Guide
Handling more than 28 million passengers in 2018, Manchester Airport was the UK's busiest airport outside of
London. The airport has gradually increased passengers every year since 2015. Make sure you book your Manchester Airport car rental as early as possible and that way you will get the best price. As to be expected at an airport this size, security is very tight but nevertheless there have been a few security incidents over the last few years.
With more than 80 airlines flying to destinations all over the world, Manchester needs its three terminals to deal with the passenger traffic. Manchester actually has more direct flights than
Heathrow or
Gatwick and the 225 destinations covered by its airlines are the most of any British airport. Flights departing from Terminal 1 include Aer Lingus flights to
Dublin, Etihad Airways flights to
Abu Dhabi and Swiss International airlines flights to
Zurich. Jet2 and Ryanair are some of the major airlines using Terminal 1.
From Terminal 2 you can go to
Paris Charles de Gaulle with Air France, Newark with Continental Airlines and
Singapore with Singapore Airlines among others. Thomson Airways is one of the major airlines to use terminal two. From Terminal 3 there are routes with bmi to Antigua, American Airlines to Chicago and VLM Airlines to Antwerp. Flybe and easyJet are two major carriers which use Terminal 3. Manchester Airport was voted the world’s best airport in 1995 and also voted the Travel Weekly Globe Awards' UK Best Airport 2008. It has all the modern facilities and conveniences you would expect from a top airport.
Manchester is a northern English city which is probably most famous worldwide for its main football team. Many of the world’s greatest players have played for Manchester United including Bobby Charlton, George Best and in the current team Cristiano Ronaldo who was named last year’s world footballer of the year. Their long time manager Sir Alex Ferguson is widely regarded as the most successful in the game and last season he led to the team to the Premier League and Champions League trophies. Expect more wealth and big name players to pour into Manchester now that its second club Manchester City has become the world’s richest after being bought by the Abu Dhabi United Group.
Much of the city’s liveliness can be attributed to its well respected university which means that there are usually more than 80,000 students living in the city. It is also extremely cosmopolitan because of the many ethnicities that live there. Located in the north west of England, the city of Manchester has just under half a million inhabitants, thought the conurbation known as Greater Manchester has two and a half million people living there. They are known as Mancunians and often have strong accent.
Airport Name
Manchester International Airport
Location
12 miles from Manchester
Address
Olympic House
Manchester
M90 1QX
Telephone
+44 (0) 161 489 3000