Manchester Airport – a Corporate Partner of the FTE Digital, Innovation & Startup Hub – has previewed what travellers will experience when its £1.3 billion transformation programme is complete later this year. The airport’s 10-year transformation programme will be finished later on this year when its brand-new Terminal 2 opens fully.
The first phase of the programme – an extension that doubled the size of Terminal 2 – opened in 2021. Since then, work to revamp the original part of the building, creating more space for seating, security, shops and restaurants, and check-in has been ongoing.
Last year, the airport announced the names of more than 20 new shops, cafes, restaurants and bars that will be opening in the new part of the terminal, including a Chanel outlet, LEGO Store, the airport’s first Wetherspoon pub, a Fever-Tree bar and its new Great Northern Market – a dining experience featuring a range of street-food-style kitchens around a central eating area.
Now the airport has shared a first look at what passengers will experience when they use the new terminal.
“Our transformation programme has been 10 years and £1.3 billion in the making but now we’re in the final stages of finishing everything off to open it to the public later this year,” said Chris Woodroofe, Managing Director, Manchester Airport. “There’s a huge amount of work going on all over the airport. That work isn’t just limited to Terminal 2 either. We’re modernising our airfield, building a new road to improve access to the new terminal – and we’ll soon be able to say more about some work we’re doing in Terminal 3 too.”
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