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Manchester Airport; Always Striving To Improve And Develop

Manchester airport is a major airportlarge passenger numbers. Additionally,
within the UK, its size and passengerthe jet age required extensions to the
numbers are large and considered to berunways as well as larger more efficient
the largest outside the London area.terminal buildings. At this early stage
Naturally as with every major airportairport bosses started to fill these
today Manchester is filled withterminals with shops, cafes and car hire
accompanying services such as car hiredesks as a means of earning extra
desks, shops, cafes and restaurants.profits through tenancy agreements. It
Like Heathrow Manchester has twowas not until the seventies that the
operational runways, an advantage oversite was renamed as Manchester
airports like Gatwick and Stansted. TheInternational Airport.
site also has its own railway stationAs the major airport outside of London
and extensive road links meaning that itexecutives soon realised the opportunity
is a major air transport hub in theto begin long haul flights from the
north of England. In the previous twelvesite. Long haul planes however meant yet
months Manchester saw twenty two millionanother runway extension to accommodate
passengers fly in and out; the site islarge jets like the Boeing 747. This
not owned by BAA but is instead owned byexpansion yielded great results. By the
the Manchester Airport Group, a groupearly nineties around ten million
doing well enough to consider buyingpassengers were using the airport on an
Gatwick airport in the coming year.annual basis; clearly having a major
Like many of the airports in the UKairport outside of the London
Manchester started operating during theconurbation was a good idea. It was
thirties as part of a growth in airduring these years that another terminal
travel more generally. Originally thewas built with all of the auxiliary
site's location in the parish of Ringwayservices like car hire desks, shops and
gave the airfield its name. Therestaurants. Additionally it this period
inaugural flight went to Amsterdam inalso saw the addition of a rail link to
1938. The outbreak of war however meantthe national network and a second
that the site was soon requisitioned forrunway. The second runway increased
military purposes. During these yearspassenger numbers two fold in the next
the airfield was used for flyingdecade or so and is large enough today
operational sorties but wasto accommodate the gargantuan Airbus
predominantly used as a testing andA380, the largest passenger jet ever
training centre. The Britishbuilt.
manufacturer Avro, makers of theManchester airport today is the largest
Lancaster, used the site to test theirand most commonly used outside of the
bombers. In terms of training it isthree major London airports. It has
believed that the site was the majordeveloped from a small airfield named
training ground for the newly formedafter a local parish to a bona fide
parachute regiments that were sointernational gateway. With the
instrumental in the new form of warfare.facilities to accommodate the largest
As with most airfields in the UK theand most modern aircraft it will
ending of war meant a return to civiliancontinue to be a leader in the world of
use. By the late fifties Manchester wasair travel. As a fundamental link in the
ferrying half a million passengerstransportation network its future is
annually. Such high usage meantsomewhat assured.
expansion and growth to accommodate



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