Beating its previous monthly record of 3.31 million passengers that was set in August 2019, Manchester Airport is celebrating its current busiest month on record and summer holiday success
Driven by the school summer holidays, August 2024 saw passengers jetting off to a huge range of the 200 destinations served by Manchester Airport – with Türkiye proving especially popular among the North’s travellers. The month also saw the airport’s busiest single day on record – with 113,000 passengers flying into or out of Manchester on August 23rd.
Taken together, July and August saw 6.56 million passengers using Manchester Airport – making it the busiest summer the airport has ever recorded, beating the 6.48 million set in 2019.
The most popular destinations for passengers flying from Manchester include Palma de Mallorca, Antayla, Dalaman, Dubai and Dublin.
Manchester Airport’s transformation programme will be completed in 2025, following which more than 70% of its passengers will use the brand-new Terminal 2. The first half of the new Terminal opened in 2021 and the second is on track to open next year. The airport is set to announce a range of new shops and food and drink outlets that will operate in the second phase of Terminal 2 in the coming weeks.
“We are really proud to connect the people of the North to the world – that means offering them an unrivalled range of destinations with a huge range of airlines and providing them with the highest levels of customer service," said Manchester Airport’s managing director, Chris Woodroofe. "And I am delighted to say that this summer we’ve achieved that. Not only have we seen record numbers of passengers using the airport, we’ve seen 98% of them waiting for less than 15 minutes to get to security and almost three quarters wating less than five minutes."
