Manchester Airport Through Time

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 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 and 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 and contemporary images.

Peter C. Brown is a freelance writer, online journal editor and writes for several websites. He was born in Prittlewell in 1959 and has lived in Southend-on-Sea most of his life, and has previously written books for Amberley on Shoreham and Edinburgh airports.

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