Manchester Airport in England
Manchester Airport (IATA: MAN, ICAO: EGCC) is a major airport at Ringway in
the City of Manchester within Greater Manchester, UK. It is the busiest airport
in the country outside the London region in terms of passenger numbers. It
offers non-stop scheduled flights to destinations across Europe, North America,
Africa, South Asia, the Caribbean, the Middle East and the Far East.
The airport is owned and managed by the Manchester Airports Group (MAG),
which is a holding company owned by the ten metropolitan borough councils of
Greater Manchester, and is the largest British-owned airport group. Each of
these councils has their coat of arms displayed on banners hung from the lamp
posts approaching the airport. The airport has won awards including World's
Best Airport 1995 and Travel Weekly Globe Awards' UK Best Airport 2008. The
airport has two parallel runways, three terminals and a ground transport
interchange, including a railway station.
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Manchester Airport is the home to the engineering bases of Thomas Cook
Airlines and Monarch Airlines. As well as their own aircraft, the airport
regularly sees foreign visitors and special movements visiting for engineering
work. Also, Air Livery have recently opened a new facility, with repaint
facilities catering for aircraft up to the size of a Boeing 747-400.
