Airport Industry News
Joey Stoate
18 August 2026
A brand-new report has found that Manchester Airport’s Runway 2 has ‘profoundly changed’ the Northern economy over 25 years, and has stated that it could provide an ‘even greater boost’ in the future.
However, the report also states that policy-makers must ‘grasp the golden opportunity’ to utilise the runway, which was the last to be built in the UK and opened in 2001, to create a ‘super-connected’ global North that makes the most of its new economic strengths and closes the UK’s productivity gap...
