Manchester Airport serves more than 300,000 passengers over Easter weekend

More than 300,000 passengers smoothly passed through Manchester Airport over the Easter weekend from the 7th to 10th April.

Over the course of the bank holiday weekend, 99.5% of travellers passed through security in 15 minutes or less, with nearly 80,000 passengers flying from the hub each day.

Among the most popular destinations for Easter travel were Dublin, Alicante and Tenerife, alongside international hub Dubai which offers connections to destinations across Asia.

Latest figures released by the airport also revealed that 1.9 million passengers flew from or to the airport in March, 30% more than in March 2022, with passenger numbers at 92.5% of pre-Covid figures. The airport is now gearing up for its peak summer period, which sees additional seasonal flights start running to destinations all over the world.

Manchester Airport Managing Director Chris Woodroofe said:

“We want every passenger to have a great experience here at Manchester Airport and we are pleased to have delivered a really positive start to the summer season, including during the busy Easter weekend. We’ve put in a range of new measures this year to give people a great experience, from a state-of-the-art queue monitoring system to a new 100-person resilience team that can troubleshoot a range of issues across the airport as they crop up.

“We’ve seen 99% of Easter weekend passengers get through security in under 15 minutes, which means they can relax in our departure lounges and enjoy the fact that all our food, drink and shopping outlets are now fully open.

“Manchester Airport is the UK’s global gateway in the North and we’re ready to make sure that all our passengers, whether they’re travelling short haul or further afield, see the airport at its best and get a great start to their journeys.”

Manchester Airport has welcomed more than 2,000 new members of staff since last April. That includes our new resilience team, made up of more than 100 team members who are trained in a variety of roles across the airport so that they can be deployed to help wherever issues occur, including at check-in and with baggage handling.

Manchester Airport is part of Manchester Airport Group (MAG), which also runs East Midlands and London Stansted airports.

In the last 12 months 54 million passengers have flown through MAG airports – 25 million of them from Manchester.