Norse Atlantic to operate Caribbean flights from Gatwick and Manchester with P&O Cruises – Business Traveller
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Norse Atlantic to operate Caribbean flights from Gatwick and Manchester with P&O Cruises – Business Traveller

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Norse Atlantic has announced a new fly cruise partnership with P&O Cruises. The agreement will see the carrier operate charter services from the UK to Antigua and Barbados this winter. Between November 2024 and March 2025 there will be weekly Friday flights from Manchester to Barbados, and weekly Saturday flights from Gatwick and Manchester, alternating…

MAG’s Manchester and Stansted airports report record traffic for April – Business Traveller
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MAG’s Manchester and Stansted airports report record traffic for April – Business Traveller

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Manchester Airport Group (MAG) has published its latest traffic figures, showing another record month for both Manchester and Stansted airports. Manchester Airport celebrated its seventh consecutive month of record traffic, with 2.41 million passengers travelling through its terminals in April. The figure is up 10.9 per cent on the same month in 2023, and 25,000…

Manchester Airport launches gaming area with virtual reality escape room – Business Traveller
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Manchester Airport launches gaming area with virtual reality escape room – Business Traveller

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Manchester Airport has introduced a gaming zone at its Terminal 1 to entertain passengers before they board their flights. ‘Gaming Point’, located after security at T1, features gaming PCs loaded with the likes of Fortnite, Red Dead Redemption 2, Among Us, Hogwarts Legacy, Minecraft, and Rocket League, as well as a Nintendo Switch. The Steam PC…

Manchester Airport’s PremiAir private terminal to reopen as ‘aether’ – Business Traveller
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Manchester Airport’s PremiAir private terminal to reopen as ‘aether’ – Business Traveller

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The facility will also offer a dining menu created by Mancunian Adam Reid, Chef Patron of Adam Reid at The French which is located within The Midland Hotel in Manchester. There are three entry options: Express: from £90 per person for those with hand luggage only, and including complimentary light refreshments. Guests can arrive up…

Manchester Airport celebrates six months of record traffic – Business Traveller
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Manchester Airport celebrates six months of record traffic – Business Traveller

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Manchester Airport has reported record passenger traffic for the sixth consecutive month, helped in part by an early Easter period. The airport welcomed 2,152,799 passengers in March, 12 per cent up on the same month last year, and above the 2,067,960 served in pre-pandemic 2019. Manchester Airport surpassed pre-pandemic monthly figures for the first time…

Manchester Airport reveals most-confiscated items at security – Business Traveller
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Manchester Airport reveals most-confiscated items at security – Business Traveller

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Manchester Airport has provided details on confiscated items at security in a bid to remind passengers of hand luggage regulations . The most-confiscated item “by far” is a cigarette lighter, with 284 lighters handed in over the course of one morning. While passengers are allowed to carry one lighter with them, provided it fits into…

UK airports granted extensions to install new CT scanners – Business Traveller
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UK airports granted extensions to install new CT scanners – Business Traveller

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The Department for Transport has granted extensions to some UK airports which have yet to finishing installing new-generation CT scanners, effectively abandoning the June 2024 deadline. It means that for many travellers restrictions limiting passengers to carrying liquids no more than 100ml in size – which have been in place since August 2006 when a…

TRIBE Manchester Airport set to open in June – Business Traveller
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TRIBE Manchester Airport set to open in June – Business Traveller

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Accor is set to open the second UK property under its midscale lifestyle TRIBE brand in the coming months. Plans for TRIBE Manchester Airport were first announced in 2020, with the 412-room hotel being located on Chicago Avenue within the Airport City Manchester development, around 400 metres from Manchester airport’s Terminal 2. A press release…

Royal Air Maroc to resume Manchester-Casablanca flights – Business Traveller
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Royal Air Maroc to resume Manchester-Casablanca flights – Business Traveller

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Royal Air Maroc is resuming direct flights from Manchester to Casablanca this June, after having previously operated the service pre-pandemic. The oneworld carrier is returning with a three-times-weekly service operated by a Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The flights will launch on June 23 and take place on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, with a duration of approximately…

UK’s largest airports celebrate record-breaking December – Business Traveller
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UK’s largest airports celebrate record-breaking December – Business Traveller

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Gatwick has yet to report its annual traffic figures for 2023, while London Luton – the UK’s fifth largest airport – welcomed 1.2 million passengers last month, slightly down on the 1.3 million in December 2019. Commenting on the news Gareth Powell, London Stansted’s managing director, said: “To end the year with another strong performance…