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Manchester Airport (EGCC) is a Category 10 international passenger airport located in Lancashire, UK, comprising three passenger terminals & a world freight terminal. It operates long-haul & short-haul flights to around 225 destinations worldwide. It is one of the largest centres of employment in the north-west of Engl&, with more than 19, 000 people directly employed on site, & supporting a further 42, 500 jobs in the area. It is the fourth busiest airport in Engl&, & is the only British airport other than London’s Heathrow Airport to operate two full-length parallel runways. In 2013, Manchester recorded a passenger rate of 20.8 million, with the capacity to manage millions more.
More than a million people a year visit the airport’s Runway Visitor Park, which is home to the retired Concorde (G-BOAC), as well as a Monarch Airlines DC-10, a BEA Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B & an Avro 146-RJX – the last civil airliner to be fully built in the UK.
In this book, Peter C. Brown explores the history of Manchester Airport, using a range of period & contemporary images.
This paperback book has 96 pages & measures: 23.4 x 16.4 x 0.6cm