Manchester Airport
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| Manchester Airport
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| IATA: GCC - ICAO: EGCC | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type
| Public | ||
| Operator
| Manchester Airport Group | ||
| Serves
| Manchester | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 257 ft (78 m) | ||
| Coordinates | |||
| Website
| http://www.manchesterairport.co.uk | ||
| Parts of this article may come from Wikipedia | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| ft | m | ||
| 05L/23R | 10,000 | 3,048 | Grooved Asphalt |
| 23L/05R | 9,997 | 3,047 | Grooved Asphalt |
Contents |
General
Manchester Airport opened to airline traffic in June 1938. It was initially known as Ringway Airport and during World War Two, as RAF Ringway. From 1975 until 1986, the title Manchester International Airport was used. It is located on the boundary between Cheshire and Manchester in the metropolitan county of Greater Manchester.
It has two parallel runways, three adjacent terminals, and a railway station. The airport is owned by the Manchester Airport Group which is controlled by a group of ten local authorities in the Greater Manchester area.
Manchester Airport was ranked as the 16th busiest world airport in 2004 (in terms of passengers carried on international flights) and is the fourth busiest airport in the UK (after London Heathrow, London Gatwick and London Stansted). In total passengers handled, Manchester ranked 48th in the world in 2005, down from 45th in 2004.Also, in 2006 Manchester had a recorded 234,835 aircraft movements, of which 213,100 were air transport movements (third highest in the UK) behind London-Heathrow and just under London-Gatwick.
Manchester will have flights to more destinations than any other UK airport from summer 2007. It will offer flights to 225 destinations - with more direct routes than Heathrow and Gatwick. Heathrow offers 180 destinations, all scheduled, while Gatwick has about 200, (although the two London airports handle considerably more flights and passengers than Manchester). Many of Manchester's overseas routes are served by charter flights to holiday destinations, some being seasonal.
Manchester will also offer more destinations than some of the biggest airports in the US, including New York, Chicago and Dallas. It is still slightly behind the three biggest `hubs' in the global aviation network - Atlanta, Frankfurt and Amsterdam - which each offer more than 250 destinations. However, Manchester serves more foreign destinations than Atlanta and Frankfurt (but not Amsterdam), although being much smaller in terms of total passengers handled.
The airport's latest long range plan, published mid 2006 and widely circulated to interested parties, forecasts at page 39 that passenger numbers will increase to circa 38 million passengers per annum by 2015, a fast average growth rate of 6.2% and reach 50 million by 2030. The airport authorities are examining measures to cope with this postulated increase, which so far not materialised.
An official "Aviation Viewing Park" has been created, just off the A538 on the western edge of the airfield. This provides the best viewing facilities for aircraft spotting at any major UK airport. Visitors can view aircraft taking off and landing from both runways, as well as aircraft taxi-ing to and from the runways.
Here, a grounded British Airways Concorde registered 'G-BOAC' was considered the flagship of British Airways' seven concorde fleet, it is on permanent display at the airport along with a BAE Systems Avro RJX G-IRJX, BEA Hawker Siddeley Trident 3B G-AWZK and the forward fuselage of Monarch Airlines Douglas DC-10 G-DMCA are shown on static display.
Gate Assignment
MetroAir operates out of gate 32, Pier C in Terminal 1 at EGCC.
Flight Planning Resources
- Airport Diagram
- Procedures - contains SID, STAR and IAP This website will require you to register.
IFR Routes
Pilots should add their IFR route plans originating from EGCC here as a central repository for their fellow pilots.
| Destination | Route | Suggested Altitude | Charts | Preferred | Comments |
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| KDTW | 32,000 Range: FL180-400 (even) | EGCC KDTW | 
| N/A |
Available Sceneries
| FS version | pay-/freeware | developer | available updates |
|---|---|---|---|
| FS9 | AVSIM - Lee Brompton - AFCAD - june 2007 | AVSIM - Michiel Mak - Renumbered runways visual patch - july 2007 + AVSIM - Bryn Battersby - GCC Approach Update for new runway numbering - march 2008 | |
| FSX | AVSIM - Steven Walton - AFCAD - march 2008 | none |
