Talk:Belfast International Airport

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The article needs references and citations, as there are very few. Also, the history section needs to be majorly expanded. I do not believe it even states when the airport was opened, etc.Gittinsj 03:20, 19 March 2007 (UTC)gittinsj

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The article needs references and citations, as there are very few. Also, the history section needs to be majorly expanded. I do not believe it even states when the airport was opened, etc.Gittinsj 03:20, 19 March 2007 (UTC)gittinsj

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[edit] Copyvio material removed

This text was removed from the article since it is wikified text from here:

  • November 1917: Aldergrove selected to be the Royal Flying Corps training establishment during the First World War. With the end of the war, Aldergrove remained open for Royal Air Force aircraft and for the fledgling civil traffic to and from Northern Ireland.
  • June 1921: King George V and Queen Mary visited Northern Ireland. Aircraft landed at Aldergrove with cameramen and reporters and returned to London with newsreel films and photographs of the event.
  • May 1925: Northern Ireland's own Special Reserve unit No 502 (Ulster) Squadron RAF was formed at Aldergrove.
  • 31 May 1933: Northern Ireland's first ever regular, sustained civil air service started. The route was Glasgow to Aldergrove and the flight was operated by Midland and Scottish Air Ferries.
  • 1933-1934: Aldergrove became Northern Ireland's civil airport.
  • 20 August 1934: Northern Ireland's first London service began to Nutts Corner, operated by Railway Air Services. The flight left from Croydon and went via Birmingham and Manchester to Belfast.
  • 1939-45: During the second World War, Aldergrove remained an RAF base, particularly for the Coastal Command.
  • 1946-63: Nutts Corner becomes the main civil airport of Northern Ireland.
  • 26 Sept 1963: The decision was taken to move civil flights back to Aldergrove because of less variable weather conditions than those at Nutts Corner. In recent years aircraft had been diverted from Nutts Corner to Aldergrove because of adverse weather conditions. The first passenger flight to land that day was a BEA Vickers Viscount from Manchester.
  • 28 October 1963: HM Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother reopened Aldergrove as a civil airport and inaugurated the terminal building which, as of 2006, is still in use as one part of a considerably larger complex.
  • 4 January 1966: The start of the first regular jet service, by a British United BAC 1-11 to Gatwick
  • 1969: Annual passenger numbers hit the 1 million mark
  • 11 September 2001: Transatlantic aircraft including a BA 747 are diverted to Aldergrove following the closure of United States airspace.
Vegaswikian 00:03, 15 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] 11th Busiest & References

A reference for the claim of 11th busiest would be useful (a primary refernce, i.e. the CAA stats would be best). In fact this article is lacking in any references! Thanks/wangi 11:15, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Merger with Belfast International Airport connections

The "connections" article was merely a wikified version of the list of airlines and their destinations. It's merged now. -- AirOdyssey 23:53, 5 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] History Section

I know that copyrighted materal was removed (see section above) but the current history section is very poor, missing even basic information about the beginings of the airport. It could do with some updates

[edit] MPPA

I'm guessing this is an abbreviation of "million passengers per annum". RV if you disagree.martianlostinspace 14:34, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

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