Driving lessons · M90 · M22 · M23

Driving lessons around Manchester Airport

Whether you work at the airport or live on the streets beside it, we pick up from Airport City, the terminals, Woodhouse Park, Moss Nook and Ringway, and we teach on the link roads and the M56 that make this the best place locally to learn to drive at speed.

Free door-to-door pick-up

Where we pick up

Anywhere in M90 and the neighbouring M22 and M23 postcodes: the terminals or Airport City if you are coming off a shift, or home in Woodhouse Park, Moss Nook, Ringway, Peel Hall or Wythenshawe. Pick-up and drop-off come out of our time, not the hour you paid for.

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Just over the Cheshire border in Heald Green, Styal or Wilmslow? Ring or WhatsApp and ask. If a slot lines up with a lesson nearby, we will usually come to you.

Specialist support near the airport

Tailored to how you learn

Complete beginners, nervous and anxious learners, ADHD, autism spectrum condition, dyslexia, dyspraxia and other additional needs, taught calmly, at your pace, with as much repetition as you want.

How specialist lessons work

Specialist lessons £42/hr · standard lessons £37/hr

Local knowledge

What driving around the airport is actually like

The roads and junctions you will meet here, and why each is worth practising on purpose rather than stumbling into.

A multi-lane roundabout on the Manchester Airport approach roads, with overhead signs for the terminals and the M56 and lane markings painted on the carriageway 01

The airport link roads and roundabouts

Multi-lane roundabouts on the airport spur, Thorley Lane and Ringway Road, all with clear overhead signage and traffic that keeps moving. Choosing a lane early and holding it, reading signs at speed and dealing with drivers who have never been here before. Confident lane discipline territory, and it shows on test day.

The airport spur joining the M56, with an overhead gantry sign for Manchester city centre and the terminals, and an aircraft coming in to land 02

The M56 and the airport spur

Motorway driving is not on the test, but it is on Pass Plus and it is the road most new drivers are most nervous of. The airport spur is a gentle first taste: short, well signed and straight onto the M56 for junctions 5 and 6. We do it once the basics are solid, never before.

A busy 30 mph suburban road near the airport with a bus at a stop, a speed camera and school children on the pavement 03

Styal Road, Shadowmoss Road and Ringway Road

Busy roads with speed limits that change, buses, speed cameras and school traffic at Moss Nook and Peel Hall. The everyday driving that most of a test actually consists of, and where we spend the middle stretch of most courses.

A wide, quiet estate road at Moss Nook near the airport, with an aircraft climbing away overhead 04

Woodhouse Park and Moss Nook

Wide, quiet estate roads a minute from the airport perimeter, ideal for a first lesson and for manoeuvres. Then Simonsway and Portway for roundabouts and filter lanes before anything faster.

Your test centre is set by the DVSA when you book and can change. Once you have a date we will confirm which routes to practise and build them into your final lessons.

Straight answers

Booking near the airport

If yours isn't here, ring us. We answer our own phone between lessons.

I work shifts at the airport. Can lessons fit around them?

Yes. We teach Monday to Saturday from 7am to 7pm, so early starts and late finishes are both fine, and we can pick you up from work as easily as from home. Tell us your roster and we will fit lessons around it. Sundays are by arrangement.

Do you cover Heald Green, Styal or Wilmslow?

M90, M22 and M23 are inside the free pick-up area, which covers the airport itself, Woodhouse Park, Moss Nook, Ringway and Peel Hall. Heald Green, Styal and Wilmslow are just outside: ring and ask, and if a slot lines up we will usually come to you.

I've never driven at all. Where would we start?

On the quiet estate roads of Woodhouse Park or Moss Nook, not on the airport link roads. Wide residential streets are the right place to learn where the clutch bites and what the car feels like. The roundabouts come later, when you ask for them.

How much are lessons?

Standard lessons are £37 an hour, or £350 for a 10 hour standard lesson block booking. That block offer applies to standard lessons only, not to specialist lessons or intensive courses. Intensive courses are £760 for 20 hours and £1,140 for 30. Specialist lessons for additional learning needs are £42 an hour. Full price list.

What car will I learn in?

Lessons are currently in a manual, dual-controlled car — and a manual licence covers you for automatics too once you pass.

Start driving near the airport

Two minutes on the phone, or leave your details and we will ring you back.

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