Latest travel advice – Manchester Airport

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Travel advice Manchester: It seems you canny northerners are paying more to fly Long haul from Gatwick and Heathrow, and are bypassing Manchester Airport.

So by the time you have hammered down the M6 stuck a £100 worth of petrol or diesel in the car and then paid for parking , you could get the train to Manchester and save yourself the trouble.

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The latest travel advice, from the commercial director of Manchester Airport should be “use it or lose it”.

He has warned travellers in the north of England to use long-haul flights from the airport or risk seeing them disappear.

Andrew Harrison said northern travellers’
As many as 50% of people flying to Dubai from the north are travelling down to Heathrow to catch flights rather than using scheduled flights from Manchester.

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