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Manchester Airport

international airport in Manchester, England
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Summary

Manchester Airport is an international airport[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of international airport entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,736 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Located in the administrative territorial entity: Ringway[3]
  • Country: United Kingdom[4]
  • Instance of: airport[5], commercial traffic aerodrome[6]
  • Owned by: Manchester Airports Group[7]
  • Named after: Manchester[8], Ringway[9]
  • IATA airport code: MAN[10]
  • ICAO airport code: EGCC[11]
  • Commons category: Manchester Airport[12]
  • Review score: 1.6/5 (Bad)[13], 2.7/5.0[14]
  • Scheduled service destination: İzmir Adnan Menderes Airport[15]
  • Has part(s): Pennine House immigration removal centre[16], Terminal 1[17], Terminal 2[18], Terminal 3[19]
  • Runway: 05L/23R[20], 05R/23L[21]
  • Inception: 1934[22]
  • Coordinate location: 53.353889, -2.275[23]
  • Interchange station: Manchester Interchange[24], Manchester Airport railway station[25]
  • Official website: https://www.manchesterairport.co.uk/[26]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Manchester Airport[27]
  • Place served by transport hub: Greater Manchester[28], Manchester[29]
  • Date of official opening: 1929[30]
  • Short name: Manchester[31]
  • Different from: Man Airport[32], Manchester–Boston Regional Airport[33], Isle of Man Airport[34]
  • Elevation above sea level: 257[35]
  • Area: 560[36]
  • Aerodrome reference point: 53.35388888888889, -2.275[37]
  • Patronage: 2,321,630[38], 2,579,288[39], 2,759,691[40], 2,901,910[41], 3,408,206[42], 3,463,473[43], 4,315,521[44], 4,863,874[45], 5,143,913[46], 5,206,995[47], 6,026,693[48], 6,168,383[49], 7,620,042[50], 8,745,859[51]

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Works and Contributions

Things named for Manchester Airport include it railway station[52], a dead-end railway station[53], in United Kingdom[54], founded in 1993[55].

Why It Matters

Manchester Airport has Wikipedia articles in 29 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[56] It is known by 46 alternative names across languages and contexts.[57]

Entities named for it include it railway station[52], a dead-end railway station[53], in United Kingdom[54], founded in 1993[55].

Related Entities

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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [52] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [56] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [57] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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Edit History

Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 29d ago · RVA2869 · 2026-09-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/55346|batch #55346]]: redundant value, already present at higher administrative level"
  2. 7w ago · Mrwdat3 · 2026-08-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wolfram language entity code → Entity["WeatherStation", "EGCC"]
    Has part(s) → Pennine House immigration removal centre, Terminal 1, Terminal 2 +1
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ Wolfram language entity code: Entity["WeatherStation", "EGCC"], Matched to [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/entry/54526010|EGCC (#54526010)]] in [[:toollabs:mix-n-match/#/catalog"
  3. 20w ago · Yirba · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Coordinates → —
    Country → —
    Instance of → international airport, airport, commercial traffic aerodrome
    Inception → +1934-00-00T00:00:00Z
    + 28 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14452: 920GMAN0"
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