Major UK airport reveals £1.3bn overhaul with massive new Wetherspoons

Manchester Airport's Terminal Two is undergoing a £1.3 cardinal renovation (Image: Manchester Airport)

A large uk airdrome is acceptable to acquisition a monolithic £1.3 cardinal overhaul with 20 caller shops.

Manchester Airport - which served 30 cardinal passengers for the archetypal clip successful its history, successful the 12 months to September 2024 - has revealed the adjacent stages of its renovation to modernise Terminal Two, archetypal announced successful 2015. The terminal doubled successful size successful 2021.

The buying area, called The Avenue, volition get 20 caller shops, cafes and bars including the LEGO Store and the Great Northern Market, which volition diagnostic a scope of street-food-style kitchens astir a cardinal eating area. 

The caller terminal volition see luxury brands specified arsenic Chanel, a Fever Tree barroom and the airport’s archetypal Wetherspoon pub, which was announced past year.

New scanners utilizing "state-of-the-art technology" volition beryllium installed, with a larger information area.

Terminal Two volition get 20 caller shops and restaurants (Image: Manchester Airport)

Manchester Airport Managing Director Chris Woodroofe said: "Our translation programme has been 10 years and £1.3bn successful the making but present we’re successful the last stages of finishing everything disconnected to unfastened it to the nationalist aboriginal this year.

"There’s a immense magnitude of enactment going connected each implicit the airdrome but this video shows that it volition each beryllium worthy it.

"That enactment isn’t conscionable constricted to Terminal 2 either. We’re modernising our airfield, gathering a caller roadworthy to amended entree to the caller terminal – and we’ll soon beryllium capable to accidental much astir immoderate enactment we’re doing successful Terminal 3 too.”

Thousands of radical person worked connected the translation task since it began 10 years ago, respective of whom were apprentices starting retired their careers. 

An autarkic study commissioned past twelvemonth showed astir 16,400 other jobs volition beryllium generated by 2040 arsenic a effect of the economical enactment stimulated by the enlargement of the airdrome and its way network.

The aforesaid probe – by York Aviation – revealed that Manchester Airport’s publication to the Northern system is expected to soar by astir 80% - to £6.3bn by 2040 - arsenic a effect of the afloat transportation of the translation programme. 

A further £2.9bn boost volition beryllium triggered done the accrued productivity of businesses travelling and trading globally done Manchester implicit the aforesaid period.

More than 35 cardinal passengers person already utilized the Terminal Two hold – which received the prestigious UNESCO-backed Prix Versailles architecture grant successful 2023.