MAN Manchester

How deep the MAN board really is

The table above says where a courier can fly from MAN. This reads the same 203 destinations back for the questions a dispatcher asks second: how much of the board rests on one airline, how much of it runs less than daily, whether the return leg is as thick as the outbound, what the clock here does to a Gulf working day and which of the destinations shut at night, all of it computed on 2026-09-07 from AeroDataBox scheduled route statistics.

• 104of the 203 destinations are flown by one airline
• 96destinations run less than once a day
• 22destinations have four or more departures a day
• 40.4%of the destinations name easyJet, the largest presence here

Who holds the departures at MAN

77 airlines appear on the MAN board and they do not hold it evenly. easyJet is on 82 of the 203 destinations, 40.4 per cent of them, and on 11 of those it is the only airline flying the sector. The destinations it appears on carry 237.1 of the 374.8 departures a day this airport files, though other airlines fly some of the same sectors, so read that as reach rather than as a share of the aircraft.

The next largest presence is Ryanair on 74 destinations. 56 of the 77 airlines at MAN appear on a single destination each, which is the long tail every airport carries, and none of it is a rebooking option when the sector you need is the one that fell over.

That is a middling concentration at MAN: one airline on 40.4 per cent of the destinations and the other 59.6 per cent spread across 76 airlines. A cancellation inside the easyJet network is often survivable inside the same booking, but on the 121 destinations easyJet does not touch, a rebooking means moving to a carrier the desk has to check for a through fare first.

How much of the MAN board is daily

Of the 203 destinations, 107 are flown at least once a day and 96 are not, 20 of them running once a week or less. The median destination on the MAN board is flown about once a day.

An average of 0.14 flights a day is the schedule statistic, and it is worth translating it before anything is promised to anybody: MAN to Sylhet (ZYL) is about one a week, so a missed departure there is not a delay of hours, it is the next slot.

The five busiest destinations carry 64.2 of the 374.8 departures a day, 17.1 per cent of the whole board. The other 198 destinations are spread widely enough that a courier who misses the first departure at MAN usually has somewhere else to look on the same board.

Destination	Country	The only airline on it	Flights a week	km	Routing
Bergerac/Roumanière EGC	France	Jet2	1	970	plan this
Berne BRN	Switzerland	Global Jet Luxembourg	1	997	plan this
Billund BLL	Denmark	BBB	1	782	plan this
Castellón de la Plana CDT	Spain	Ryanair	1	1,472	plan this
Dhaka DAC	Bangladesh	Biman Bangladesh Airlines	1	8,074	the pair page
Edinburgh EDI	the United Kingdom	Virgin Atlantic	1	297	plan this
Hanover HAJ	Germany	SKV	1	807	the pair page
Innsbruck INN	Austria	Jet2	1	1,178	plan this
Lahore LHE	Pakistan	Pakistan International Airlines	1	6,398	plan this
Lamezia Terme SUF	Italy	TUI Airways	1	2,136	plan this

The ten destinations out of MAN where one airline holds the sector and files fewer than seven departures a week, with the weekly figure taken as the average daily rate multiplied by seven rather than as a fixed timetable. 68 further destinations sit in the same position and are listed in the board above.

The way back from MAN

The desk holds the return direction for 131 of the 203 destinations, and a courier plans the way back on those figures rather than on the outbound. On six of them the return into MAN runs thinner than the outbound by more than a quarter. The widest gaps are Espargos (SID) at 1.1 out a day against 0.43 back, Sharm el Sheikh (SSH) at 1.7 out a day against 0.71 back and Istanbul (IST) at 4.7 out a day against 2.6 back.

It runs the other way as well: Milan (MXP) files 3.6 a day back into MAN against 2.1 outbound, which is the shape that strands a courier at this end rather than at the far end.

The clock at MAN

MAN keeps Europe/London time, three hours behind Dubai in summer and four hours behind in winter, because the clock here moves and the Gulf clock does not.

When it is 09:00 on a Dubai working morning it is 06:00 at MAN, so a nine to six day at each end overlaps for six hours. A customs question raised in the last three hours of the Dubai afternoon reaches nobody at MAN until the next morning, which is the practical limit on a same day instruction here.

The night at MAN

16 of the destinations from here carry a documented night restriction of their own, which is a departure time question at this end rather than an arrival problem at the other.

Into Amsterdam (AMS) the door shuts at 23:00 local, so the last departure from MAN that lands inside it leaves around 20:47, on a modelled block of 1h 13m. Into Paris (CDG) the door shuts at 00:00 local, so the last departure from MAN that lands inside it leaves around 21:38, on a modelled block of 1h 22m. Into London (LHR) the door shuts at 23:30 local, so the last departure from MAN that lands inside it leaves around 22:39, on a modelled block of 0h 51m. Those three departure times out of MAN are worked backwards from the published window with the block time model this site uses everywhere, 720 to 880 km an hour by sector length with thirty minutes on the ground, so they are arithmetic rather than a timetable and the desk checks the published departure before it promises the landing.

Where MAN turns up on the rest of this site

MAN carries two other pages on this site as well: the United Kingdom country desk, which sets out the customs practice, the working week and the road legs behind this airport and the MAN transit page for the connecting case, where a courier changes aircraft here rather than starting or finishing.

The site publishes 54 airport pair pages that start or end at MAN, each with the distance, the block time, the carriers on the sector and a door to door clock. The busiest are Manchester to Dublin (DUB), Manchester to Amsterdam (AMS) and Manchester to Palma De Mallorca (PMI).

Two of the 346 published hand carry lanes run through this airport: Abu Dhabi to Manchester and Dubai to Manchester. A lane page is the commercial version of the board above, with the customs, the ground legs and the price at MAN written out.

23 courier postings name MAN as the airport a courier here flies from: Manchester, Leeds and Liverpool.

To price a movement rather than read the board, the route calculator opens with MAN already set as the origin, and it works out the flying time, the distance and the delivery hour for any of the 203 destinations above.