Manchester Airport has given people a preview of what they will experience when its £1.3bn transformation programme is complete later this year.
The Northern gateway’s 10-year transformation programme will be finished later on this year when its brand-new Terminal 2 opens fully to the public.
The first phase of the programme – an extension that doubled the size of Terminal 2 – opened in 2021 and has already received the prestigious UNESCO-backed Prix Versailles award for architecture and design.
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 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 via a fly-through video that augments computer generated imagery of parts of the terminal that are under construction with the parts that have been finished to show the full experience.
Manchester Airport Managing Director Chris Woodroofe said:
“Everyone here at Manchester Airport feels proud to be able to connect the North to the world – and that’s why it’s so exciting for us to finally be able to share this video our passengers, so they can get a preview of what they’ll be able to experience here later on this year.
“Our transformation programme has been 10 years and £1.3bn in the making but now we’re in the final stages of finishing everything off to open it to the public later this year. There’s a huge amount of work going on all over the airport but this video shows that it will all be worth it.
“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.”
