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Manchester Airport

 

Manchester Airport - some general information
 
 
 
 
NEWS
 
Passenger figures
 
History of 2nd runway
 
Airport Info
 
Local community group: 
 
SEMA 
Stop Expansion at Manchester Airport 
Master Plan
 

Joint demo against expansion at London City and Manchester airports  on Saturday 4th September       Details at  http://www.campaigncc.org/

Members of Stop Expansion at Manchester Airport are teaming up with the Fight the Flights at London City Airport group to stage a joint demonstration at both airports. There will be a morning protest outside City Airport at 11am, before boarding an open-top double-decker red bus to raise awareness of the anti-expansion and anti  domestic flights message. The Campaign Against Climate Changes and protesters are calling for an end to domestic flights and instead urge commuters to ‘take the train, not plane’.

 
 
Airport Owner / Operator:    
Manchester Airports Group (MAG)

 

Airport website:    www.manchesterairport.co.uk
 
Airport Address:    
Manchester  M90 1QX    
Tel:  08712 710 711
 
 
Airport Noise complaints form:   
 http://www.manchesterairport.co.uk/noisecomplaints.nsf/cf
 
Noise Report 2006      Night Noise Policy 
 
and there are other noise documents on the airport website.
 
 
Airport Consultative Committee:   Consultative Committee
 
 
CAA figures:    CAA aviation statistics
 
Terminal Passengers:     CAA - Terminal Passengers 1999 - 2009
   (annual figures, table 10.3)
 
2009    18,631,242  (down - 11.5% from 2008)
2008    21,063   thousand   (down  - 4% from 2007)
2007    21,892  (down - 1% from 2006)

2006    22,124

2005    22,083

2000    18,349

1997    15,726   

 

 
Air Traffic Movements (approx - thousands):   CAA ATM statistics 1999 - 2009
  (annual figures, table 4.2)
 
2009   162,182  (down  - 15.2% from 2008)
2008    191 thousand  (down   - 7% from 2007)
2007    207   (down - 3%  from 2006)

2006    213

2005    218

2000    178

1997    148  

 

 

Air Freight (tonnes):        CAA Air Freight statistics 1999 - 2009
(annual figures, table 13.2)
 
2009      102,543  (down - 285 on 2008)
2008     141,781  (-14% from 2007)
2007     165,366  (up 11% from 2006)

2006     148,957

2005     147,484 

2000     116,602

1997      94,318

 

 

Multimap:    map of airport location

Aerial photo:    aerial photo of airport location
 
 
Wikipedia: Wikipedia page on Manchester airport:

Runway lengths and directions:

05L/23R   3,048 metres  10,000 feet  Concrete/Grooved Asphalt
05R/23L   3,047 metres   9,997 feet  Concrete/Grooved Asphalt

 
Proportion of domestic passengers, out of total passengers
CAA statistics, annual figures  - comparing Tables 9 and 10.2

2006       15.7%
2007       14.6%
2008       13.9%

Business Aviation:  Number of business flights (= private jets) 
CAA statistics, annual figures - Table 3.1

2007      6,019   (+ 104 air taxis)
2008      6,170  ( + 114 air taxis)
 
 
 
Airport Master Plan:    Master Plan to 2030

Consultation in summer 2006.  Published late 2006 or early 2007.

Key details of Master Plan:  

Manchester Airport's master plan claims that:

"For every 1 million air passengers, 3,000 jobs are created nationally, 2,000 regionally and 1,425 in the immediate sub-region."   (this is highly unlikely to be true).
 
"In 2006, the Airport handled over 22 million passengers travelling on around 226,000 aircraft movements.  Over 100 airlines now serve over 200 destinations worldwide. The Airport is one of the UK’s major cargo airports, handling 151,000 tonnes of cargo in 2006.
 
"The forecasts for Manchester suggest that by 2015, the Airport could be handling some 38 million passengers a year, and that this could rise to around 50 million by 2030. We broadly agree with the forecasts in the Future of Air Transport White Paper."
 
Aircraft movements are forecast to grow to 353,000 by 2015, and cargo throughput is forecast to grow to approximately 250,000 tonnes by 2015."
 
The airport finished Terminal 2 in 1993 and the opening of the Second Runway in 2001. Manchester is now the only UK airport, beside Heathrow, to have 2 main runways. That gives capacity for the future and we have no plans for a 3rd runway.
 

 
Future expansion that the airport wants:
 
Figures from the Committee on Climate Change report (December 2009) show the DfT considers that Manchester Airport might have a runway capacity of 500,000 ATMs per year by 2050, and might have 449,000 ATMs annually by then.   (http://tinyurl.com/ybczeenpgs 27-28)   This compares to around 162,000 ATMs in 2009.

 

 
 

Monthly passenger figures:

 
Manchester Airport's monthly traffic figures from MAG's website
 
also
CAA monthly figures for Manchester Airport terminal passengers:
 
Jul 2010      2,006,904        -1.4% (compared to July 2009)
Jun 2010     1,853,103       - 0.44% (compared to June 2009)
May 2010    1,571,439       -  8.2%  (compared to May 2009)
Apr 2010     1,075,959       - 26.06% (compared to April 2009)
Mar 2010     1,248,479       - 6.96% (compared to March 2009)
Feb 2010     1,029,002      - 10.66% (compared to February 2009)
Jan 2010      1,017,118      -13.92% (compared to January 2009)
Dec 2009     1,086,345      - 12.7 %  (compared to Dec 2008)
Nov 2009     1,288,268      - 11.40%  (compared to Nov 2008)
Oct 2009     1,825,157      - 11.46%  (compared to Oct 2008)
Sep 2009     2,167,417      - 9.41%   (compared to Sept 2008)
Aug 2009     2,408,352      - 10.02% (compared to Aug 2008)
July 2009     2,036,318      - 10.0%   (compared to July 2008)
Jun 2009     1,852,142      - 13.3%    (compared to June 2008) 
May 2009    1,713,017      - 13.7%   (compared to May 2008 and this month larger than Stansted)
Apr 2009     1,454,768      -   5.2%    (compared to April 2008) 
Mar 2009     1,342,560      - 18%      (compared to Mar 2008) 
Feb  2009    1,150,515      - 16.8%    (compared to Feb 2008) 
Jan  2009     1,181,047      - 10.2%    (compared to Jan 2008) 
Dec 2008     1,245,831      - 10.0%    (compared to Dec 2007)

 

 
Local community group: 
SEMA  (Stop Expansion at Manchester Airport)
      Stop Expansion at Manchester Airport 
       and SEMA blogspot
 
 
Proportion of domestic passengers, out of total passengers
CAA statistics, annual figures  - comparing Tables 9 and 10.2

2006    15,7%
2007    14.6%
2008    13.9%

Business Aviation:  Number of business flights (= private jets) 
CAA statistics, annual figures - Table 3.1

2007       6,018 (+ 104 air taxis)
2008       6,170 ( + 114 air taxis)
 
 
 
 
 
 
News about Manchester airport:
 
 
Some news stories about Manchester Airport.
 
Also news stories about the airport can be found at the UK Airport News website 
and the airport's own press releases:
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

  
  
  

 

(29th January 2000)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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