Manchester Airport News

Manchester airport is constantly growing and developing in order to keep up with the increasing demand and number of passengers. For in-depth and up-to-date information and Manchester airport news visit the official news pages.

Current projects

Manchester Airport is constantly undertaking projects to ensure that capacity and good customer service is maintained. Currently there are a number of short to medium term projects underway at Manchester Airport:

• The arrivals concourse in Terminal 1 is undergoing a multi-phased project to increase the capacity and efficiency of the baggage reclaim process. This will be achieved by increasing the size of the existing facilities and by providing an extra reclaim belt. The baggage handling areas are also being reconfigured to improve operations behind the scenes and reduce bag delivery times.
• A coaching project is under development in Terminal 2. Some of the aircrafts arriving at Terminal 2 have to be parked on remote stands, and the passengers need to be transported to and from these stands by coach. This coaching project will make this trasport process faster and more effective by providing a dedicated coaching facilities with the passenger drop off located adjacent to HM Immigration.

Safe parking award for Manchester

The Association of Chief Police Officers have awarded Manchester Airport a "Park Mark" award for its excellent parking safety and facilities.

The airport, which is only the second ever airport to be presented with the award, achieved this by reducing vehicle crime on the site by 79% over the past three years.

The improvement in vehicle safety came after a £250,000 investment into CCTV, fencing and lighting in the airport's car parks.

And another!

Manchester Airport's train station has been awarded the "Best kept station" award by First Group this year.

The award follows significant improvements to seats, signs, toilets and ticket machines, all aimed at making rail passengers using the station have a more pleasurable journey. The station was also highly commended for its excellent cleanliness standards.