Newquay Cornwall International Airport

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Newquay Cornwall International Airport RAF St. Mawgan

IATA: NQY - ICAO: EGDG
Summary
Airport type		Military
Operator		Serco
Serves		Newquay
Elevation AMSL		390 ft (119 m)
Coordinates		50°26′26″N, 004°59′44″W
Runways
Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	ft	m	Surface
12/30	9,006	2,745	Asphalt

Newquay Cornwall International Airport (IATA: NQY, ICAO: EGDG) is a commercial airport located a few kilometers northeast of Newquay in England, UK .It shares a runway with RAF St. Mawgan. It is the main airport serving Cornwall, a very popular tourist area of England. The airport is located close to attractions such as The Eden Project, National Maritime Museum and the Tate St Ives.

As the airport is situated close to many surfing beaches (Newquay has been called the 'surf capital' of Europe), many of the championship contenders fly through, as it is one of the only commercial links into Cornwall.

The airport is constantly growing, including a new extension that has increased the terminal size by 20%. This means the airport can handle as many as 450,000 passengers a year. However, the airport is continuing to grow, due to popularity and increased sales, the airport is known to be one of the fastest growing regional airports in the UK.

In 2006 the airport introduced a £5 per passenger airport development fee, payable by all departing passengers via an ATM type machine prior to passing security. This resulted in Monarch dropping its only route from the airport (Málaga) and Ryanair reducing the amount of flights from 2 to 1 per day.

However, the R.A.F. Base on the opposite side of the runway (R.A.F. St. Mawgan) is being closed down in October 2007, or as the latest info suggests August 2008. This is what the fire service have been told at St Mawgan . The Fire and Rescue Service at St Mawgan is run by the MOD but it is not R.A.F. The firefighters at the base stand to loose their jobs along with many other locally employed staff. As the airfield is manned for cat3a all the new flights coming in to the airport that are above cat3a (737 and other large aircraft) will have to be covered by firefighters working overtime as they have been doing for the Ryanair air craft thus far. The civil airport is having to take over the running of the airfield that is presently being run by the R.A.F.

[edit] Airlines

Air Southwest (Bristol, Cardiff, Cork [Starts 4 May], Dublin, Leeds/Bradford, London-Gatwick, Manchester)
bmi
- bmibaby (Manchester)
British Airways (London-Gatwick)
flybe (Belfast-City [starts May 2007], Edinburgh)
Isles of Scilly Skybus (St. Mary's)
Ryanair (London-Stansted)