Manchester airport code: MAN
Manchester Airport's code is MAN, its IATA code. Its four-letter ICAO code is EGCC.
Manchester's entry in OurAirports, the public-domain list the airport code lookup is built on, reads IATA MAN and ICAO EGCC. The file puts the airport at 53.3494° N, 2.2795° W, 257 ft (78 m) above sea level, under the place name Manchester, Greater Manchester, with Ringway Airport among its keywords.
MAN and MHT are different Manchesters
The same data has a second Manchester: Manchester-Boston Regional Airport, in New Hampshire in the United States, with the IATA code MHT and the ICAO code KMHT. It's roughly 5,000 km from Manchester Airport in a straight line and it isn't one of the airports in our lookup. If a search for a Manchester code returns MHT, that's the American one.
Two parallel runways, two surfaces
OurAirports lists two runways at Manchester, both lit and 148 ft (45 m) wide, and they aren't built from the same material.
| Runway | Length | Surface |
|---|---|---|
| 05L / 23R | 10,000 ft (3,048 m) | Asphalt |
| 05R / 23L | 10,007 ft (3,050 m) | Concrete |
The numbers are compass headings in tens of degrees. In the file, 05 points about 51 degrees true and 23 about 231, which is why each strip has two numbers, one for each end. What a runway is has the rest.
What the airport says about itself
Manchester Airport's own page says it handles around 19 million passengers a year, with over 60 airlines flying direct to around 200 destinations. The page isn't dated, so read those as a rough scale rather than a current count. Its terminal guide sorts airlines into Terminal 2 and Terminal 3.
MAG isn't a code for the airport
On the airport's own pages, MAG is Manchester Airports Group, the company that owns and runs Manchester, London Stansted and East Midlands airports. It's a company name. Manchester Airport's code is MAN.
Watching from the ground
Manchester has a visitor park beside its runways that is set up for watching aircraft, with its own hours and parking charges. They're set out in the plane spotting guide for the UK.
Closest airports to Manchester in the lookup
Straight-line distances, worked out from the coordinates, across all 112 airports in the lookup:
| Airport | IATA | ICAO | Straight-line distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Liverpool John Lennon Airport | LPL | EGGP | 37.9 km |
| Hawarden Airport | CEG | EGNR | 50.2 km |
| Warton Aerodrome | WRT | EGNO | 59.4 km |
| Blackpool Airport | BLK | EGNH | 68.2 km |
MAN on a print
The airport code print is set from the same data. Open it with MAN filled in and the type is already set: MAN, then MANCHESTER · UNITED KINGDOM, then 53.3494° N, 2.2795° W. Any line can be edited before you order.
For a spotter rather than a pilot, gifts for plane spotters has the rest of the range. Another airport? Gatwick, Edinburgh, Birmingham and Heathrow have pages of their own, and the lookup takes any code.
Written by Craig Fearn, The Aviation Gift Co. Last updated .