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Manchester Airport plans to challenge Gatwick as the second largest travel center in Great Britain because it is supposed to use growing capacity restrictions in London.
Chris Woodroofe, Managing Director of Manchester, said the airport raced to secure dozens of new long -distance routes for new destinations such as the United States, India and Thailand.
Manchester, whose passenger numbers rose to 31.5 million at 8 a.m. last year, presented its growth plans by 1.3 billion GBP before completing a new addition.
Mr. Woodroofe said that this would help to withdraw London Gatwick Airport, which has been removed from the construction of his second runway.
He is confident to meet 40 -M passengers by 2030 and almost put on the airport with Gatwick, who exceeded 43 million passengers last year.
“You have a London market that is saturated because there is no expansion and airlines that cannot grow,” said Woodroofen.
“Every airport in London is quite full today.
“In Manchester we are pretty much finished with our investment and have two landingways with a lot of capacity. So we are the only airport in Great Britain with appropriate expansion functions.”
Mr. Woodroofe said he used United Airlines and American Airlines to remove a new generation of long-distance single-aisle jets on routes that connect Manchester to US cities such as Boston and Chicago.
He said he was also confident that Virgin Atlantic will start flights from Manchester to Los Angeles and San Francisco.
Other candidates in the next few years are Bangkok about which discussions with Thai Airways are underway. And New Delhi, the Indigo, India’s largest airline, opened, can be opened by Mumbai von Mumbai after the first European flight this week.
Also on a list of target cities are Islamabad in Pakistan, Tokyo in Japan and Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia as well as locations in Africa south of the Sahara and a third destination in China to Beijing and Shanghai.
Manchester, while Great Britain’s third airport behind Heathrow and Gatwick, is the neck and neck with the latter in the long -distance markets and offers more than 50 routes beyond Europe.
However, it claims to attract more business goals and to use a catchment area of 23 million people within two hours through northern England, South Scotland, North Wales and parts of the Midlands, in which it has a little or no long competition.
The airport said it was that the government would be behind the long -distance thrust. The flights in Mumbai alone will increase exports in Great Britain by £ 33 million a year and add additional expenses from Indian visitors £ 12 million.
