Manchester Airport is expecting more than 100,000 football fans fly to cities across Germany to watch the England and Scotland play in the 2024 European Championships.
Manchester is the only UK airport outside London with direct connections to every city that could host an England game. To mark the tournament taking place, the airport is illuminating its honeycomb light installation in Terminal 2 in the colours of both England and Scotland. Other in-terminal events and competitions are also planned as the tournament progresses.
Travellers heading to Germany for the Euros will add to another busy month for the airport in June, with May having continued Manchester Airport’s record-breaking run going back to October 2023. Almost 2.8 million passengers passed through the airport in May – and 98.6% of them queued for under 15 minutes before getting to security.
Manchester Airport Managing Director, Chris Woodroofe said:
“Football fever has well and truly arrived here at Manchester Airport. We’ve already started to see fans heading out to Germany to take in the spectacle, whether they’re looking for England to put an end to all those years of hurt or Scotland to lift a first ever international trophy.
“More than 100,000 passengers will fly between Manchester and Germany over the next three weeks – and I’m backing both England and Scotland to do well so that will only increase as we get to the knockout stages.
“We’re proud to serve the people of the North and we’re confident we’ll offer passengers a great service as they head out to the tournament. In May we had yet another record-breaking month with 2.8 million passengers using the airport. Almost every one of them waited for less than 15 minutes to get to security and 77% of them waited for less than five minutes.
“We’ve got plenty of staff in place over the duration of the tournament and beyond meaning we’ll continue that level of service and whether people are travelling for to Germany or to any of the other 200 destinations we serve, they’ll be able to start their holidays here at the airport.”