Manchester: Your Airport, MAN

Every year, Greater Manchester receives millions of international tourists, many brought by a love of football and music, with others travelling further afield to enjoy the scenery of national parks like Snowdonia and the Lake District.We speak to Victoria Braddock from Marketing Manchester on why people from around the world want to visit the city and the role the airport plays in

Tom and Adam take a trip to the shadows of Big Ben, where they chat to Manchester Airport Group’s Head of Public Affairs Joe Chapman, exploring the engagement MAN does in Westminster, and looking at what July’s general election result means for the future of aviation.Meanwhile, while we’re in the capital, we call in on Gareth Powell, MD of MAN’s sister airport, London Stans

Ryan and Jade from Live the Dash, are among the most-followed travel creators on the net, with 750k followers across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube. They are also regular travellers from Manchester. They talk to Tom and Adam about what it’s like to be a travel influencer and share stories of their recent trips from their second home, MAN.We also check back in with the airport’s

Grab your hard hats and safety goggles, we’re taking you onto the construction site that will soon be Terminal 2. Last series, we heard from Jill Fraser on the plans for Phase 2 of MANTP. In this episode, Tom and Adam are joined by Rick Wagstaffe from the MANTP team to hear about the progress made and take a tour of the parts of T2 that are under construction, including the new p

Where are some of the weird and wonderful places people will be jetting off to this summer and beyond? Manchester Airport is proud to serve new routes to destinations as varied as Luxembourg, Shanghai, Las Vegas and Casablanca this summer, but old favourites like Spain, Greece and Turkey will be very popular as well. We speak to Candice Flanagan, a holiday sales rep at TUI, about t

It’s time to add some glitz and glamour to the podcast, so we’re talking Vegas, baby! Tom Fordyce and co-host Adam Jupp are back with one of the most exciting updates yet.Taking you behind the scenes of one of the biggest route inaugurals at Manchester Airport this summer, we speak to John Parton from Virgin Atlantic about the new route, and also catch up with travel creators L

On our final episode of the series, Tom takes to the skies with TUI pilot Damian Ikin to find out what really goes on inside the cockpit. And on the ground, Adam explains how Manchester Airport dealt with the recent air traffic control outage.

Can you take a cat skull through security? Tom and Adam get an insight into the weird and wonderful questions answered by Ellie Todd and Ffion Williams from Manchester Airport's social media team. And speaking of questions, they put some of yours to Managing Director, Chris Woodroofe.

Feeling hungry? Tom and Adam get stuck into the culinary delights on offer at Manchester Airport. Keith McAvoy from the brewing company Seven Bro7hers treats Tom to a tipple and shares what it’s like to run the Amber Ale House in Terminal 2. On the business end, Commercial Director Stephen Turner explains how Manchester Airport chooses which bars and restaurants to put in its ter

From supersonic flight to streamlined security, Tom and Adam are on a mission to find out more about the tech changing the way we travel. They speak to Antonio Filippone, Professor of Computational Aerodynamics at the University of Manchester, about new developments in the sky – and on the ground they sit down with Operations Director, Rad Taylor, who discusses his role in helpin