Manchester Airports Group

Manchester Airport has launched its first multi-channel, multi-audience marketing campaign to showcase the breadth of destinations it offers to the USA.  The #USADirect campaign will…

Hainan Airlines has confirmed that it will launch flights to the UK next summer. The new Beijing-Manchester flights, which were first revealed in Travel Daily Asia last week, have now…

The campaign to have Network Rail make improvements to the Stanstead to London rail link has had a boost in the form of backing from London mayor Boris Johnson.  Network Rail has been…

Updated 29 January 2015, 13.34 GMT Manchester Airport has reopened after being forced to close while snow was cleared from its runways.  Flights have started to depart and arrive…

Emirates has announced it will add a second daily Airbus A380 service between Manchester and Dubai next month. The EK019/020 service (which departs Manchester at 2025 and Dubai at…

Holidaymakers flying from Manchester Airport will have more options next summer from Virgin Atlantic. The carrier has announced it will increase capacity to Orlando and Las Vegas from…

Turkish Airlines has announced an increase in flights between Manchester and Istanbul next summer. The airline will add four flights a week from 25 May and an extra three per week…

Qatar Airways has announced it will up its flights between Manchester and Doha to twice daily in February 2015. The double daily service will commence on 15 February 2015 operated by…

Stansted Airport has officially opened the first phase of its new departure lounge. A World Duty Free Group new flagship store is now in the Essex airport at the entrance to the…

Stansted Airport has seen 1.9 million more passengers pass through its terminal in July compared to the same month last year. A strategy for route growth under new owners Manchester…

Flybe has announced new flights to Amsterdam from Manchester and London City. The carrier will be taking on KLM and low-cost rivals with the new year-round routes, which will start…

Updated 5 August, 14:39 BST  A Qatar Airways aircraft was escorted into Manchester Airport by military jets earlier this afternoon after a bomb hoax. A man onboard the flight has…

Manchester Airport Group’s revitalisation of Stansted Airport seems to have got off to a good start with a 3.3% increase in passengers numbers so far this year. The airport has…

American Airlines has announced new flights between Manchester and Charlotte as aligns its European routes for the summer. The new route will be operated by US Airways on a daily…

Jet2.com has set its sights on growing passenger numbers from Manchester as one of four new route launches got underway on Friday (2 May. The airline’s head of planning David Neill…

Cathay Pacific has announced new flights from Manchester to Hong Kong starting this December. The airline plans to launch the new route on 8 December using a Boeing 777-300ER in a…

Finnair will soon mark 20 years of flights from Manchester to Helsinki, as it also prepares to increase its Asian connections. The Finnish carrier first started flights from…

Manchester Airports Group (MAG) will be celebrating this week after Stansted Airport saw its first full year of passenger growth in six years.   The Essex airport carried more than…

Manchester Airport has posted is 17th consecutive month of growth as it prepares for its winter season. In October the airport saw a 6.6% increase in passengers, with its entire…

Ryanair has announced 12 new routes from Stansted as part of its new agreement with the Essex airport. Flights from Stansted to Basel, Bordeaux, Bucharest, Lisbon and Prague are…

US Airways has announced it will launch flights between Manchester and Charlotte, North Carolina next year. The new route will operate daily from 22 May 2014 onboard a Boeing 757.…

Swissport employees based at Gatwick, Heathrow, Manchester and Stansted have voted in favour of strike action over pay conditions. The ground handling staff have voted in favour by…

Ryanair has agreed a new long-term growth deal with Stansted Airport’s new owners M.A.G after previously cutting back services from the Essex airport. MAG and Ryanair have agreed a…

Thomas Cook Airlines has announced a tie-up with Flybe to offer more connections to long-haul flights out of Manchester Airport. The tour operator will use Flybe’s flights from…

Manchester Airport has seen its busiest summer since 2008 with passenger numbers increasing 2.2 million people passing through the terminal in July. The rise represented a 4.4%…

Figures released today have revealed that Manchester Airport saw 2.1 million passengers in June 2013 – a rise of 4.1% year-on-year. The figures mark the thirteenth consecutive month…

Virgin Atlantic is to add another 30,000 return seats on its Manchester-Orlando route throughout next summer. The airline is to deploy a Boeing 747 aircraft on the route for summer…

Boeing celebrated two milestones in the roll-out of its B787 Dreamliner aircraft over the weekend, with the deliveries of the first aircraft to China and the UK. On Friday, spectators and…

A new lounge has opened at Manchester Airport after a GBP500,000 investment. The new Escape Lounge in the airport’s Terminal 3 can hold up to 120 passengers at a time and follows a…

Jet2’s Christmas flights and packages to New York are to return this year following their popularity in previous years. The airline, and tour operator arm Jet2holidays, will offer the…

Manchester Airport has launched a new campaign to claw back four million passengers that travel to London airports to fly. Its ‘Fly Manchester’ campaign is aimed at highlighting routes that…

Manchester Airport has announced it will end its trial of ‘naked’ security scanners and replace them with new ‘privacy friendly’ ones next month. Its current scanners will be replaced by…

TAP Portugal is to operate daily flights between Manchester and Lisbon this autumn, it has announced. The carrier will start the daily service on 28 October with connections onto Luanda,…

Lonely Planet is to open its first store in the UK next month with an outlet in Manchester Airport. The shop will open on 29 June as part of the LS travel retail UK & Ireland group,…

bmi Regional is to continue operating flights from Manchester and East Midlands after its sale to Sector Aviation Holdings was completed today. Forty jobs are expected to be created at its…