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Manchester Airport

Manchester Airport
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About Manchester Airport

Manchester Airport is an international airport in Ringway, Manchester, England; it lies 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Manchester city centre. In 2025, it was the third-busiest airport in the United Kingdom in terms of passengers, and the 20th-busiest airport in Europe in 2024, with 32.1 million passengers served.

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There was a report in 2015 of the sniffer dogs at Manchester Airport, and apparently in the previous 12 months they had failed to spot a single person carrying heroin or cocaine over the border. They had found 181 kilograms of illegal meat.

from No Such Thing As Tiddlywinks In The Wild West, 2022-02-25 at 00:25:22 · read transcript

Other times Manchester Airport came up

  1. Out things that are not hats That have been used as hats So I googled the phrase worn as a hat Specifically that And it turned out that in 2002 A 17 year old girl wore a chameleon as a hat through Manchester Airport and was stopped by the customs guys.

    No Such Thing As Gorillas On The Beach, 2016-04-01 · listen

  2. They can't shout them down. To sit there swearing at them. I read another study by Manchester Met, and this is going back to the airports. This was complaint data at Manchester Airport from between 1998 and 2000. They found what we found, which is that there is a subgroup of serial complainers out of all the complaints. They described as... Is that like, cornflakes, not quite cheap enough?

    No Such Thing As The Assistant Honcho, 2022-06-10 · listen

  3. So it's quite hard to shout mass over the noise and the press of the people and especially if they take in a vow of silence or something, that would be really. They can't shout them down to sit there swearing at them. I read another study by Manchester Met and this is going back to the airports. This was complaint data at Manchester Airport from between 1998 and 2000. They found what we found, which is that there is a subgroup of serial complainers out of all the complaints. They described.

    430: No Such Thing As The Assistant Honcho, 2022-06-10 · listen

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