Condé Nast Traveller has teamed up with Manchester Airport to give away a £3,000 holiday voucher for the ultimate escape. The prize is a voucher that can be spent on a holiday up to the value of £3,000, with flights from Manchester Airport and/or accommodation in a destination of the winner’s choice.
This comes at an exciting time for the UK’s largest aviation hub outside of the capital. Its latest summer campaign, Holiday Mode: Activated, presents the airport as the starting point for travellers’ mindset shift – a haven to embrace pre-travel indulgence and spontaneity.
Doing just that is easier than ever thanks to recent happenings at Manchester Airport. A new section of the airport’s redeveloped Terminal 2 opened to the public at the end of July 2025, offering a host of new stores and eateries to jetsetters just in time for the school holidays.
The new section marks the latest milestone in a 10-year, billion-pound transformation of Terminal 2, which will double in size in anticipation of Terminal 1's closure later this year. Once work’s complete, passengers will be able to dine in a host of new restaurants, enjoy a flute of pre-flight Champagne in a brand-new bar or browse one of the latest fashion boutiques.
Until then, there’s plenty to enjoy. Travellers are encouraged to indulge in beauty products, gifts and holiday essentials in World Duty Free before a spot of pre-flight feasting. Manchester-based businesses offering a new dynamic to the terminal experience include Archie’s, where lip-smacking burgers, shakes, and waffles are served in a sibling-owned space inspired by the diner in the 1988 flick Licence to Drive.
Another restaurant to expand from the heart of the city and into Terminal 2 is Pot Kettle Black, founded by professional Rugby League players Jon Wilkin and Mark Flanagan and inspired by both Mancunian culture and Australian café culture.
There’s no shortage of exciting destinations serviced by Manchester Airport – and the list continues to grow.
As of November 2025, the airport will become the first outside London to offer direct flights to Bangkok with Norse Atlantic Airways. Tickets for the new Boeing 797-9 service went live in early July, with travellers snapping up seats to explore the temples, spas and world-class beaches beyond the world’s most visited city.
The connection to Thailand came a few days after the announcement of the north’s only direct service to Mumbai courtesy of India’s biggest airline, IndiGo.
In addition to new routes, the airport connects British travellers with more than 200 global destinations. City break fans can catch Broadway shows and witness the city that never sleeps from a towering New York skyscraper, tour Bilbao’s world-class galleries and museums, or wrap up warm for a wintery exploration of Gdansk.
Fantastic options for families include summertime lounging on Bodrum’s spectacular beaches, northern Ibiza’s laidback farmstays or the fly-and-flop resorts surrounding the Cypriot city of Paphos.
To be in with a chance of winning a £3,000 holiday voucher to spend on a bucket list holiday from Manchester Airport, answer the question below correctly and enter your details.
Manchester-owned restaurant Archie’s, found within Manchester Airport’s Terminal 2, takes inspiration from which 1988 movie?