Manchester Airport anticipates record Christmas traffic
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Manchester Airport has issued some festive advice to passengers, ahead of what is predicted to be its busiest Christmas ever, with an increase in passengers starting this week.
During the peak Christmas travel period, from Friday 23rd December to Monday 2nd January, 640,125 passengers will be travelling through Manchester Airport, a 22% increase year-on-year.
The busiest individual days over Christmas will be 23rd and 30th December, plus 2nd January, as people jet away on holiday and fly home for Christmas.
As temperatures plummet, thick winter coats along with hats, scarves and gloves are essentials to beat the cold outdoor weather. However, at the UK’s third largest airport, passengers are being asked to remove them once inside the terminal before the security check point – to help speed up security queues and reduce waiting times.
Manchester Airport calculations show that on average, an unprepared passenger who has to the unzip zips, undo buttons, take off hats, gloves and untie a scarf at the metal detector, rather than in the queue, add over a minute per person to the security processing time. This doesn’t sound much but multiply it by thousands of passengers and it soon adds up.
The airport is also asking passengers to take careful consideration about what they put in their hand-luggage before they get to the airport to avoid Christmas presents being confiscated.
Many popular stocking fillers actually breach security regulations, typically because they contain liquids, and passengers may be asked to leave items behind if they are not compliant.
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