There's a 'secret' place to chill at Manchester Airport - and it's completely free

manchestereveningnews.co.uk:

Passengers heading to Manchester Airport are only now discovering an 'empty' place to chill while they wait to fly. Twitter user and self-confessed ‘aviation geek’ Simon McHale posted footage of the serene-looking spot this morning. “Security @manairport were once again excellent and now we are waiting in the quiet area at T3 for our @Ryanair flight,” he wrote, with a sweeping view of the area, overlooking the terminal’s main facilities.

The 'Quiet Zone' was fitted out with extra seating on the upper level of the departure lounge of the airport’s Terminal 3 last summer.

It also offers views across the airfield, and has a small cafe of its own. READ MORE: Join the FREE Manchester Evening News WhatsApp community "The Terminal Three quiet zone offers additional seating away from the busiest areas of the terminal and as it’s on the upper level of the departures area it offers great airfield views," the airport said. "We have similar spaces in Terminal One and Terminal Two and airport staff are always available to help passengers find them." It comes after the airport has hit headlines in recent years for overcrowding, hours-long queues for check in, missing bags and rocketing costs for drop offs and pickups.

Terminal 3 was even named the worst in the whole of the UK in a survey by Which? published just last year, which even suggested travellers ‘avoid’ the terminal if possible.