What airport is MAN?
MAN is
Manchester Airport
Manchester, United Kingdom
Why the code is MAN
The first three letters of Manchester.
The airport authority or a contemporaneous record states this directly.
The airport
- IATA code
- MAN
- ICAO code
- EGCC
- Airport
- Manchester Airport
- City
- Manchester, United Kingdom
- Code origin
- Documented
Manchester is the busiest UK airport outside London and one of the few with two full-length parallel runways. Concorde G-BOAC is preserved here in a purpose-built hangar, open to visitors.
The other code, EGCC
Every airport has two codes. The three-letter IATA code, MAN, is the one on your boarding pass and your luggage tag, and it is assigned for commercial use. The four-letter ICAO code, EGCC, is the one pilots and controllers use, and it is assigned geographically: the first letter or two identify the region, so every airport in the same part of the world shares a prefix. That is why EGCC looks nothing like MAN.
Common questions
- What airport is MAN?
- Manchester Airport, in Manchester, United Kingdom.
- Why is Manchester's airport called MAN?
- The first three letters of Manchester.
- What is the difference between MAN and EGCC?
- MAN is the IATA code, used commercially — tickets, timetables, luggage tags. EGCC is the ICAO code, used operationally by pilots and air traffic control, and assigned geographically by region.
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Sources
- OurAirports — OurAirports (Public domain)