Information on Manchester Airport

Manchester Airport is the largest airport in the United Kingdom outside of the London region and offers non stop scheduled flights to numerous destinations accross Europe, North America, the Caribbean, Middle East and Far East, was officially opened on 25th June 1938 and initially known as Ringway Airport. During World War II it became RAF Ringway. During 1975 and 1986 the airport was known as Manchester International Airport, and in 2008 celebrated its 70th anniversary.

The ten metropolitan borough councils of Greater Manchester form a holdings company, Manchester Airports Group (MAG) which is the largest British owned airport group. MAG own and manage the airport and each of these councils has their coat of arms displayed on banners hung from the lamp posts approaching the airport. In 1995 Manchester Airport was awarded the World's Best Airport and in 2008 Travel Weekly Globe awarded it UK's Best Airport.

In 2007 Manchester Airport was the fourth busiest airport in the United Kingdom in passenger nembers and aircraft movements

Manchester Airport has two parallel runways and three terminals, an intergrated public transport hub known as The Station provides Rail, Tram and Bus Services to the North West.

An Aviation Viewing Park at the airport currently holds G-BOAC a retired British Airways Concorde, once the flagship of the airline's seven strong Concorde fleet, a BAE Systems Avro RJX G-IRJX which is the last airliner to be built in the UK, the forward fuselage of a Monarch Airlines Douglas DC-10 G-DMCA and one of only two preserved Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B aircraft, G-AWZK in full BEA Livery.


There are currently two railway franchise holders that serve Manchester Airport, Northern Rail and First TransPennine Express and they operate services between the Airport and Crewe for connections to the South of England, Manchester Piccasilly for various destinations throughout Northern England and to Glasgow Central and Edinburgh Waverley via Carlise. There are also night services to Manchester Piccadilly and beyond including Blackpool North, Doncaster, Sheffield and York.

Over 300 trains, 100 coaches and 500 buses use The Station on a daily basis.

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Things to do in Manchester

While in Manchester you might want to look around the City and its variety of architectural styled buildings ranging from Victorian to contemporary architecture, with widespread use of red brick throughout the city. Manchester used to be a global centre for the cotton trade and just outside of the City Centre you will find a large number of ex cotton mills, some are still untouched since they closed while others have been redeveloped into apartments and offices. One of the most important Victorian Buildings in England is the Town Hall in Albert Square which was built in the Gothic revival style and has been used many times in films as a replacement location for the Palace of Westminster where filming is not permitted.

Between the 1960s and 1970s a number of skyscrapers were built including the CIS Tower which is the tallest and located near Manchester Victoria Station, the Beetham Tower which includes a Hilton Hotel, restaurant and apartments, the Piccadilly Tower behind Manchester Picadilly Station and the Green Building opposite Oxford Station which is a pioneering eco friendly housing project and almost unique in the UK.

There are over 135 parks, gardens and open spaces within the city including the award winning Heaton Park which covers 610 acres (250 ha) of parkland and is one of the largest municiple parks in Europe and can be found in the North of the city. There are also two large squares that hold many of Manchester's public monuments, Prince Albert, Bishop James Fraser, Oliver Heywood, William Ewart Gladstone and John Bright can all be found in Albert Square and Queen Victoria, Robert Peel, James Watt and the Duke of Wellington monuments can be found in the Piccadilly Gardens. The cenotaph in St Peter's Square is Manchester's main memorial to its war dead. In Sackville Park you will find the Alan Turing Memorial which commemorates his role as the father of modern computing. Mr and Mrs Charles Phelps Taft of Cincinnati Ohio presented the City of Manchester with a statue of Abraham Lincoln by George Gray Barnard to mark the part that Lancashire played in the cottin famine and American Civil War of 1861 to 1865 and this can be found in the eponymous Lincoln Square. The B of Bang is the tallest sculpture 184 feet (56 m) in the UK can be found near the City of Manchester Stadium to commemorate the success of the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

Music

Next to Manchester Vitoria Station is the Manchester Evening News Arena which seats over 21,000 and is the largest arena of its type in Europe and the busiest indoor arean in the world ahead of Madison Square Garden in New York and the o2 Arena in London. Manchetser two other major venues are the Manchster Apollo and the Manchester Academy. Smaller venues in the city include the Bierkeller, the Roadhouse and the Night and Day Cafe.

Bands and artists that have emerged from the Manchester music scene include, THe Hollies, Herman's Hermits, the Bee Gees, the Buzzcocks, the Fall, the Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, Oasis, Doves, Happy Mondays, The Charlatans, Inspiral Carpets, James, The Stone Roses, Take That, Simply Red, A Guy Called Gerald, Richard Ashcroft and Jay Kay from Jamiroquai.

The Arts

Larger venues include the Manchester Opera House, the Palace Theatre, the Royal Exchange Theatre, the Lowry Centre with smaller sites the Library Theatre, the Green Room, the Contact Theatre and Studio Salford


Sport

Two Premiership football clubs bear the city's name, Manchester City who play at the City of Manchester Stadium with a capacity of 48,000 and Manchester United who play at Old Trafford, the largest football ground in the United Kingdom with a capacity of 76,000. Lancashire County Cricket Club's ground is also in Trafford. The Belle Vue Aces Speedway team race every Monday night at the Belle Vue Stadium Kirkmanshulme Lane. Greyhound Racing takes place at the same venue on Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday evenings. 

Airlines and Destinations

The airport provides regular direct flights to many destinations worldwide by 84 airlines.

Airlines serving North America

*American Airlines
*Continental Airlines
*Delta Air Lines
*US Airways
*Air Transat
*Virgin Atlantic

Airlines serving Asia

*Air Blue
*Emirates
*Etihad Airways
*Libyan Airlines
*Pakistan International Airlines
*Qatar Airways
*Saudi Arabian Airlines
*Singapore Airlines

Primary Operational Base for Charter Airlines

*Thomas Cook Airlines
*Thomson Airways

Secondary Hub for

*bmibaby
*Flybe
*Jet2.com
*Monarch Airlines
*Virgin Atlantc
 
For all flight information please go to the offical Manchester Airport site

http://www.manchesterairport.co.uk/manweb.nsf/Content/FlightInformation

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