New lounge to open at Manchester Airport

01/05/2010

By James Wilson.

A new lounge at Manchester Airport will serve as a central hub for new products, it has been revealed.

The Escape lounge will open in terminal one and is expected to open up a raft of services under the name the Travel Extras Store.

Passengers will have access to the new lounge, flight booking, private jet hire, emergency overseas assistance, hotel booking, luggage tracking and more.

There is already an Escape lounge in the airport's terminal two building and it also has plans to open a third in terminal three "in the near future".

Andrew Harrison, commercial director for Manchester Airport, said: "By unveiling the new Travel Extras Store, we're looking to expand the amount of touch points we have with our customers and I want the new online store to give our users the best products available to them."

The airport has also released an online video aimed at highlighting how it hopes the new lounge will look.

Some 22 million passengers use Manchester Airport every year.