Officially opened on 25 June 1938 and was initially known as Ringway Airport. DurinWorld War II it was called RAF Ringway and become a hub of wartime engineering activity as an aircraft manufacturing base. It was laid out with three new runways and ten new hangars.
By 1995, 15 million passengers per year were using the airport and a new runway was added in 2001 to allow for future expansion. Today nearly 23 million passengers use Manchester.
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