§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list those organisations which have recently approached him seeking the expansion of Manchester airport.
§ Mr. Michael Spicer[pursuant to his reply, 28 January 1985, c. 12]: I cannot release the names of such organisations without their specific agreement. But, since July 1983, my department has received 124 letters from individuals and organisations in the North-West region advocating increased use of Manchester airport.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Transport how many applications have been made for new scheduled services from Manchester airport by (a) British airlines and (b) foreign airlines; and which of those services would involve new scheduled destinations.
§ Mr. Michael Spicer[pursuant to his reply, 28 January 1985, c. 12]: The Civil Aviation Authority has the following licence applications outstanding for scheduled services from Manchester:
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Points or points to be served Applicant (i) Domestic routes Blackpool Spacegrand Birmingham/Bournemouth/Cardiff/Newcastle Metropolitan Airways City of London STOLPORT Brymon Airways Jersey Guernsey Airlines (ii) International routes Alicante Orion Airways Athens British Airways Britannia Airways Orion Airways Amsterdam Dan-Air Services Cork Air Ecosse British Airways Dublin Dan-Air Services Dusseldorf Dan-Air Services Faro Britannia Airways Orion Airways Hamburg Air Ecosse Metropolitan Airways
Points or points to be served Applicant Kano British Caledonian Airways Las Palmas Orion Airways Lisbon British Airways Madrid British Airways Malaga British Airways Britannia Airways Air Europe Orion Airways Montpelier Dan-Air Services Oporto British Airways Oslo Dan-Air Services Metropolitan Airways Stockholm Dan-Air Services Metropolitan Airways Tenerife Orion Airways Amsterdam, Birmingham, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Cork, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Jersey, Madrid and Newcastle are already served from Manchester.
Although one foreign airline has expressed an interest in operating a long haul service, there are no outstanding applications as such to my Department from foreign airlines seeking a permit to operate into Manchester.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list all those foreign airlines which operate scheduled services out of Manchester airport; and what is the total number of passengers to have travelled with each such airline using Manchester airport in the last year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Michael Spicer[pursuant to his reply, 28 January 1985, c. 12–13]: The following foreign airlines operate scheduled services out of Manchester:
Quantas Iberia Aer Lingus TAP Air France Yugoslav Airlines Sabena Cyprus Airways KLM Air Malta Lufthansa Swiss Air SAS The number of passengers carried on the airlines' Manchester services in 1983 was 472,327, but I am unable to give the number of passengers travelling with each of these airlines from Manchester since that information is commercially confidential.
Detailed figures for 1984 are not yet available, but the total number of passengers using Manchester in 1984 was almost 6 million.
§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list in the Official Report all those destinations from Manchester airport currently served by (a) domestic flights and (b) international flights; and in the case of each destination how many passengers travelled that route in the latest year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Michael Spicer[pursuant to his reply, 28 January 1985, c. 13]: The following destinations were served in 1984 by international scheduled services from Manchester airport:
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Amsterdam Dusseldorf Athens Faro Bangkok Frankfurt Barcelona Larnaca Brussels Lisbon Copenhagen Madrid Cork Malaga Dublin Melbourne Dubrovnik Milan
Nice Rome Paphos Shannon Paris Sydney Pula Zurich The following destinations were served in 1984 by domestic scheduled services:
Aberdeen Dundee Belfast (Aldergrove) Edinburgh Belfast (Harbour) Gatwick Birmingham Glasgow Bournemouth Heathrow Cardiff Isle of Man Channel Islands Newcastle In addition, approximately 160 foreign destinations, mainly in Europe, were served in 1984 by charter and air taxi flights.
I have not given details of the passengers carried on each route since some of this information is commercially confidential.