FIFTY thousand jobs were to be created by plans to build a new runway at Manchester Airport.
The £36 million scheme for the region's major airport would make Manchester the country's second biggest, overtaking Gatwick and second to Heathrow in importance. Manchester would handle 30 million passengers a year instead of the current 12 million by the year 2000 and the current 42 flights an hour would increase to 70.
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