Manchester Airport has reported file passenger visitors for the sixth consecutive month, helped partially by an early Easter interval.
The airport welcomed 2,152,799 passengers in March, 12 per cent up on the identical month final 12 months, and above the two,067,960 served in pre-pandemic 2019.
Manchester Airport surpassed pre-pandemic month-to-month figures for the primary time in October, and has pushed via since then, with the most recent whole bringing its 12-month rolling passenger numbers to twenty-eight,780,337, up 13.8 per cent on the earlier 12 months.
The preferred locations final month have been Dublin with 95,254 passengers, adopted by Amsterdam with 93,838, Dubai with 92,554, Tenerife with 88,330 and Alicante with 65,824.
In different information the airport stated that it had now put in a brand new baggage system serving Terminal 2, as a part of its £1.3 billion Transformation Programme.
The system – which has processed greater than 100,000 baggage because it went stay on the finish of March – options greater than two miles of conveyor belts and may course of 3,000 baggage per hour.
The airport stated that baggage will journey as much as 582 metres from check-in to the plane, with a bag on common taking round ten minutes to cross via the system.
When full Terminal 2 might be double its present measurement, and can serve greater than 70 per cent of the airport’s passengers from 2025.
The ultimate section of labor contains the development of a brand new safety corridor with 3D scanners, and a second pier with further boarding gates, in addition to the disclosing of a brand new procuring zone known as The Avenue.
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Commenting on the information Manchester Airport’s managing director Chris Woodroofe, stated:
“We’re proud to serve the individuals of the North. On the floor meaning providing an unrivalled vary of greater than 200 locations, nice service in order that passengers by no means wait quite a lot of minutes to get to safety and world class amenities in our terminals.
“However beneath the floor there’s a big quantity of labor that goes into making that occur. We’re in the course of a £1.3bn programme that’s utterly remodeling the airport. A key element of that’s this new baggage system that can assist be sure issues proceed to run easily behind the scenes.
“So whereas passengers will see the distinction as they cross via Terminal 2 – which has already received the celebrated Prix Versailles award for its structure and design – equally essential modifications have been made within the elements of the airport that most individuals won’t ever see which means that as demand for journey continues to extend, the service we provide our passengers continues to enhance.”
