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Manchester-Airport Manchester Airport UKGeneral Information. Airport code: MAN Tel: +44 (0)161 489 3000 Distance : 16km from Manchester The Manchester International Airport provides a wide range of facilities including those for business, children and the disabled. Public transportation to and from the airport is reliable and frequent with a choice of trains, coaches, taxis and car hire. 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. MAG owns several other UK airports; East Midlands, and the smaller Hurn, Bournemouth and Kirmington, Humberside. Most other major airports in the UK are owned by BAA plc.  Those wishing to drive to the airport will find it easily accessible and well sign posted from the access roads. The airport offers a range of short and long stay parking and 24 hour petrol stations.Voted European Airport of the Year in 2001, Manchester Airport is served by around 95 airlines flying more than 19.5 million passengers to over 180 destinations each year. The wartime years from 1940 to 1945 saw 60,000 of Britain's airborne forces troops training there. With another prominent plane maker A.V.Roe setting up shop alongside Fairey some of the most famous military aircraft of the conflict was manufactured in Manchester. It was here that the prototype of the Lancaster bomber made its first flight.  Peacetime brought new opportunities for civil expansion and in 1949 part of the old Parachute School cast off its past and was converted to handle an increasing number of passengers. Two years later the runway was lengthened and in the 1960's an imposing terminal building with air traffic controls facilities and two passenger piers were added. That development heralded two decades of burgeoning traffic and growing facilities which included a third pier, new departure hall and a longer runway.In the 1980s the airport was designated an International Gateway handling direct long-haul international flights. A second international passenger terminal and direct rail and motorway links have made the airport increasingly accessible to a wide catchments area. 
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