News & Press Releases relating to Manchester Airport

SIA to increase Manchester flights

From September 1, Singapore Airlines (SIA) will up its flights, from five flights a week to daily, between Manchester and SIngapore via Munich.

Etihad to open premium lounge in Manchester

Etihad Airways, the national airline of the United Arab Emirates, has announced it will open a premium lounge in Manchester, the third Etihad lounge to open outside of the airline's home base in Abu Dhabi.

Flybe to launch Bournemouth-Manchester

From May 27, Flybe will start offering flights between sister airports Manchester and Bournemouth. The flights will run every day except Saturdays.

Heathrow and Manchester introduce body scanners

The UK government has directed Manchester and Heathrow airports to start using body scanners on passengers as of today (February 1).

Big Freeze causing travel chaos

Rail and air disruption continues amid plunging temperatures

BAA accuses watchdog of "bias"

Airport owners appeal against sale order 

easyJet to quit East Midlands

Operations also cut at Luton 

News in brief: June 25 2009

News in brief from Manchester Airport, Huub Smeets, Heathrow and Gatwick Express, Lufthansa and Brussels Airlines and Air India

Penny Coates

New board member at Manchester Airport Group

Manchester Airports Group (MAG) has appointed Penny Coates to its board with immediate effect.

Managing director of its East Midlands, Bournemouth and Humberside airports, Ms Coates is the first regional airports executive to be appointed to the board since its creation.

MAG said Ms Coates will bring focus to the group's customer experience and sustainability agenda at the board level.

Before joining MAG in 2005, Ms Coates was a director of ASDA Wal*Mart.

Emirates now has three class flights to Osaka

Emirates,  the Dubai-based international carrier, has opened a new three class service from Dubai to Osaka.

This means that with only JAL serving Japan”s second city non-stop from London, this will be of benefit to travellers from Birmingham, Gatwick, Heathrow and Manchester airports. 

The new service is codeshared with JAL and includes connections to Tokyo (Haneda), Fukuoka and Sapporo.

http://www.emirates.com

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