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eBook details
- Title: Manchester Airport Through Time
- Author : Peter C Brown
- Release Date : January 15, 2017
- Genre: Transportation,Books,Nonfiction,History,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 17719 KB
Description
Manchester Airport (EGCC) is a Category 10 international passenger airport located in Lancashire, UK, comprising three passenger terminals and a world freight terminal. It operates long-haul and short-haul flights to around 225 destinations worldwide. It is one of the largest centres of employment in the north-west of England, with more than 19,000 people directly employed on site, and supporting a further 42,500 jobs in the area. It is the fourth busiest airport in England, and is the only British airport other than LondonÃs 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 airportÃs 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 and an Avro 146-RJX ñ 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 and contemporary images.