Manchester Airport

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2/10

"poor standard of services"

(Australia)

Trip Verified | I was appalled at the poor standard of services and general environment. The line for customs clearance was ridiculously long with only three customs officers for an A380 arrival. It’s hard not to compare to Australian airports and having arrived from Dubai it was shocking to experience this. The floors were filthy, the toilet facilities were dated and dirty. Sorry Manchester airport but if you want to be recognised as a high standard international airport you really need to pull your socks up
Experience At AirportArrival Only
Date VisitAugust 2018
Type Of TravellerCouple Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages N/A
Wifi Connectivity 12345
Airport Staff 12345
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1/10

"Droppers and collectors beware"

(United Kingdom)

Not Verified | Dropped my son off last week at terminal 3. Took about 3 mins, cost £3 collected him tonight, collecting car parking badly sign posted, arrivals badly sign posted. Queues for passport control and no signage to car park pay station meaning by the time I found a pay station I'd been parked roughly an hour n half. Cost £9.50. Utterly appalling. Droppers and collectors beware. The place was chaotic. £9.50 and one of the lifts was out of order.
Experience At AirportTransit
Date VisitAugust 2018
Type Of TravellerCouple Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Seating 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages 12345
Airport Staff 12345
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1/10

"45 minutes with no air conditioning"

(United Kingdom)

Not Verified | Awful! Security took 45 minutes with no air conditioning with an infant. On way back waited over an hour for luggage! Not the first time! Just an awful airport and needs to step it up! I would be ashamed at providing such a poor service and constant delays! Ruined a nice holiday!
Experience At AirportArrival and Departure
Date VisitAugust 2018
Type Of TravellerFamily Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Seating 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages 12345
Airport Shopping 12345
Wifi Connectivity 12345
Airport Staff 12345
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1/10

"just unacceptable"

(United Kingdom)

Trip Verified | Manchester airport has got to be hands down the worst airport I’ve travelled to/from. Having moved from London two years ago when I would travel from both Heathrow and Gatwick regularly I have since had to travel from Manchester. And my word how far behind it is! My recent holiday was a good example of how poor it is. This review is based on a journey during summer holidays so it will be busy which I appreciate there are more people travelling, but some of these issues are just unacceptable. The security queues are a joke. To be shouted at the whole 45 mins that you are in the queue is unacceptable. I can’t think of a worse way to start a holiday. Other than the stress of finding a parking bay to be dropped off in and be charged for the pleasure of it! Multiple customers needing to be pulled out of the security queue due to them missing their boarding times. But of course, at Manchester airport, if you fancy paying then no problem. In addition, the airport is filthy dirty. I took my 5 year old into the ladies toilets at 6am to be met with an over flowing sanitary bin! Not a pleasant sight for him or me. Come on Manchester airport! This is disgusting. On the return this week unfortunately it was no better. Passport queues were marginally better than I’d experienced last time but arriving into T1, no one seemed to be able to tell me where the “pick up area or designated place” was. This included the info desk who told me it had all been changed three weeks ago! Well congratulations on completely screwing it up. This resulted in us needing to catch the tram one stop to eventually find the person who had been trying to collect us! Next time I will be travelling from Liverpool. If Manchester wants to become the northern powerhouse then it’s going to need to do something about its airport because this is actually embarrassing.
Experience At AirportArrival and Departure
Date VisitAugust 2018
Type Of TravellerFamily Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Seating 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages 12345
Airport Shopping 12345
Airport Staff 12345
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1/10

"an appalling dump"

(United Kingdom)

Not Verified | Awful, embarrassing for Manchester. I exited Manchester, went via Frankfurt, Dusseldorf to Munich, plus 4 days around Munich. Then came back into Manchester at around 23:00hrs. What an appalling dump. Scruffy, un-loved, badly designed, the airport seemed to be struggling with the numbers coming through at that late hour even. The pens ahead of the Passport Control are like nothing I've ever seen outside of Penrith cattle market. The queue going through the Green - Nothing to Declare - was around 60 people and took maybe 10 minutes. The whole place looked like a patchwork of make-do short term efforts, nothing planned, just make-do. Mid stay car park for 4 days = £200. Manchester - hang your collective heads in shame.
Experience At AirportArrival and Departure
Date VisitAugust 2018
Type Of TravellerSolo Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages N/A
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1/10

"the worst airport I have been"

(United Kingdom)

Trip Verified | It is the 6th time that I've travelled from this airport because this is my home town for the time being. I can say that this is the worst airport I have been so far in my entire life. Staff are rude, cleaning service is below average, baggage comes one hour after flight lands and all this in the busiest airport in the UK (after the London airports). For the last 3 flights, I used Leeds Bradford airport which is much smaller, only an hour by train from Manchester and thankfully is much more business minded and quick. As for Manchester, here's what happened today. Last time I departed from Manchester, the Uber dropped me in the new drop-off area as Manchester has enforced a £3 pounds minimum fare for everyone that wants to get in the terminal area. After they drop you off, you can get the free (thankfully) shuttle bus to drive you to the airport (which takes 10 minutes in normal time). Today, we arrived with a 2-hour delay from my destination, we arrived at 00:39 and got our luggage at 01:10. I was searching for the shuttle drop off bus but there are no signs at terminal 3 and so I was waiting for 10 minutes there. I asked 2 bus drivers who did not know that bus and in the end, thankfully I went to terminal 1, where the bus had previously dropped me. I finally found the driver who told me that this is the staff bus and could not take me (for crying out loud, there is a dedicated staff bus for the same place but not for the 25 million passengers that the airport handles). Thankfully, the driver has showing understanding and let me in. The moment we arrived, he dropped me in the drop off area where I tried calling again an Uber cab. Then the good part started: The security guard told me that there this is only a drop off place and not a pick up place. So I had to go back to the airport and call for a cab there. Finally I went back to terminal 1 (after 30 minutes had passed) and yes, the management had succeded; I did not use an Uber cab but instead I used their private taxi service paying 25% more. Definitely I would have used the train to go to Manchester centre but as it was 1 am and everything was shut, I had no choice. It seems like the taxi drivers lobby won there.
Experience At AirportArrival Only
Date VisitAugust 2018
Type Of TravellerBusiness
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Seating 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages 12345
Airport Shopping 12345
Wifi Connectivity 12345
Airport Staff 12345
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1/10

"What next will you be charging for"

(United Kingdom)

Not Verified | Congratulations Manchester airport you have now managed to rinse every bit of money you can out of the people who drop off your customers at your airport. What next will you be charging for, fumes we breath within the airport perimeter. Not impressed, nothing more than money grabbing.
Experience At AirportDeparture Only
Date VisitAugust 2018
Type Of TravellerCouple Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Seating 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages 12345
Airport Shopping 12345
Wifi Connectivity 12345
Airport Staff 12345
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1/10

"Unacceptable waiting times"

(United Kingdom)

Trip Verified | Unacceptable waiting times for security and bus service to get out. Apparently only 2 buses available to collect passengers and we waited over 20 minutes for any bus to be available. I have never seen such a bad service anywhere in the world!
Experience At AirportArrival and Departure
Date VisitAugust 2018
Type Of TravellerBusiness
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Seating 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages 12345
Airport Shopping 12345
Wifi Connectivity 12345
Airport Staff 12345
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1/10

"so chaotic and disorganised"

(United Kingdom)

Trip Verified | Where do I start, where on earth do I start. I have never been to an airport that is so poorly operated in my life. They have no staff, no customer skills and absolutely no clue about what is going on. We arrived 2.5 hours early for our flight, stood in a queue until 3pm (we were due to depart at 3.30) before being ushered to the front as we were about to miss our flight! Once through security, we had just enough time to make it to the toilet before jumping on our flight! I have never seen something so chaotic and disorganised. I would rather drive to Japan and fly from one of their airports than return to this absolute shed. The staff should be ashamed, the management should be taken to Slough and be forced to work as pylons with a selection of various sandwiches being placed in charge. Worst airport experience I have ever encountered, if you are yet to book, fly from somewhere else, drive, sail, run, basically, find any other method of transport which does not include Manchester airport.
Experience At AirportArrival and Departure
Date VisitJuly 2018
Type Of TravellerFamily Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Seating 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages 12345
Airport Shopping 12345
Wifi Connectivity 12345
Airport Staff 12345
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1/10

"airport is a complete disgrace"

(United Kingdom)

Not Verified | This airport is a complete disgrace. Poor signage for cars upon entering. Terrible parking which is unbelievably expensive. The security queues are atrocious with unhelpful staff. I vowed never to fly from this airport again and it won't improve until people start voting with their feet. Since my last flight I've flown from Edinburgh, Barcelona, Porto and Lisbon and at each airport it took less than ten minutes to move through security. How can Manchester get it so wrong. Problems like this start at the top. Poor show for the people of the North West.
Experience At AirportDeparture Only
Date VisitJune 2018
Type Of TravellerCouple Leisure
Queuing Times 12345
Terminal Cleanliness 12345
Terminal Seating 12345
Terminal Signs 12345
Food Beverages 12345
Airport Shopping 12345
Wifi Connectivity 12345
Airport Staff 12345
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