Skip to main content

Manchester Airports Group sees January bounce back

Air
Gary Noakes
14 February 2023

Manchester, Stansted and East Midlands airports saw last month’s passenger numbers reach 91% of levels seen in January 2019.

Manchester airport is seeing passenger numbers return to pre-pandemic levels

The three airports served 3.6 million passengers in January, with more than 1.6 million of these passing through the northern hub.
 
The figure is more than double the 750,000 who travelled through Manchester in January 2022, when the Group served just 37% of pre-pandemic traffic.

Manchester airport claims to have put last summer’s issues behind it, when it was dogged by long security queues, with passengers missing flights and waiting hours for luggage.

Manchester Airports Group said: “Operational performance has continued to be much-improved on last summer, with 92.4% of passengers waiting for 10 minutes or less to pass through security checks last month.”