For many years travellers from the north or midlands have invariably used Manchester airport if they were venturing abroad due to the lack of alternative airports and a wider choice of destinations. Whilst Manchester airport still is the main airport there is no doubt that the other airports are catching up fast.

Manchester airport is growing its overall share of the Northern market has decreased with East Midlands airport in particular growing at a greater rate. There is no doubt that travellers would rather to use their local airport and as a regular traveller from all these airports my first choice would be East Midlands followed by Birmingham then Manchester with Leeds a distant fourth due to its poor location.

However if you are flying from Manchester airport and due to departure times you may want to think about using Manchester airport hotel with parking an alternative which is more expensive. But I must admit I do enjoy it, although I have found that airport parking East Midlands and parking at Birmingham airportairport parking Birmingham to be usually less expensive than parking at Manchester airport. On top of cheaper airport parking, reduced travelling costs. Generally it just seems a lot less stressful experience.

There are really only 2 things that would make me choose Manchester airport over either East Midlands or Birmingham airport. One would be the timing of the flight back, not keen on arriving back late in the day or at night which means you spent most of your last day hanging around, which makes for a long day with a drive home after your flight. The second reason is if the price of the flight was much cheaper.