Edinburgh Airport
| Edinburgh Airport Port-adhair Dùn Èideann |
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| IATA: EDI – ICAO: EGPH | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner/Operator | BAA | ||
| Serves | Edinburgh, Scotland | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 136 ft / 41 m | ||
| Website | |||
| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 06/24 | 2,557 | 8,389 | Asphalt |
| 12/30 | 1,798 | 5,899 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2007) | |||
| Aircraft Movements | 128,172 | ||
| Passengers | 9,047,558 | ||
| Statistics from the UK CAA[1]Source: UK AIP at NATS | |||
Edinburgh Airport (IATA: EDI, ICAO: EGPH) is located in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was the busiest airport in Scotland in 2007, handling 9,047,558 passengers. It was also the seventh busiest airport in the UK by passengers and the fifth busiest by air transport movements.[1] It is located 8 statute miles (13 km) west of the city centre and is situated just off the M8 motorway.
Edinburgh Airport is easily reached by the M9 and M90 motorways and is close to the Fife Circle and Edinburgh-Glasgow railway lines, although it has no station on either line. Express bus services link the airport to Edinburgh City Centre by Airlink 100, to Inverkeithing railway station and Ferrytoll Park and Ride in Fife by Stagecoach Service 747, to Edinburgh Park, Sighthill, Fountainbridge, Holyrood and Leith by Service 35 and to Livingston, Broxburn, East Calder, Mid Calder by E&M Horsburgh Service 555/777.
The airport is owned and operated by BAA, which also owns and operates six other UK airports[2], and is itself owned by an international consortium led by the Spanish Ferrovial Group.[3]
The airport is a hub for easyJet, flyglobespan and Ryanair.
The present terminal building, designed by Robert Matthew, was constructed in 1977 and has been upgraded in recent years, with new car parking facilities and an extended arrivals hall. A new control tower was completed in 2005.
There are plans for expansion of the airport, with passenger numbers expected to reach 26 million per annum by 2030.
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History
Turnhouse Aerodrome was the most northerly British air defence base in World War I. The small base opened in 1915 and it was used to house the 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron, which consisted of DH 9As, Westland Wapitis, Hawker Harts, and Hawker Hind light bombers. All the aircraft used a grass air strip.
In 1918 the Royal Air Force was formed and the airfield was named RAF Turnhouse and ownership transferred to the Ministry of Defence.
When World War II broke out, fighter command took control over the airfield and a runway of 3,900ft was paved to handle the Vickers Supermarine Spitfire.
When the war ended the airfield still remained under military control, but by the late 1940s the first commercial services were launched. In 1947, British European Airways started a service between Edinburgh and London using Vickers Vikings followed by the Viscount and Vanguard series.
In 1952 the runway was extended to 6000ft to handle the Vampire FB5s. In 1956 a new passenger terminal was built to offer improved commercial service and five years later it was extended. The Ministry of Defence transferred ownership to the Ministry of Aviation in 1960 to offer improved commercial service to the airport. In 1971 the British Airports Authority took over the airport and immediately started to expand it by constructing a new runway and terminal building.
Although the original runway 13/31 (which is now 12/30) served the airport well, its alignment had the disadvantage of suffering from severe crosswinds, so movements were transferred to a new runway (07/25, which is has since become 06/24). This runway, completed in 1977 is 8399ft in length, and was able to take all modern airliners. A new terminal was built alongside the runway to cater for the additional traffic. The old terminal and hangars were converted into a cargo centre.
The only international services from Edinburgh during the 1980s were to Amsterdam and Dublin, but in the following years links were opened to destinations in France and Germany. By the end of the decade BAA had been privatised and funds were used to extend the current terminal building and create parking aprons.
In 2005, a new 57 metre tall air traffic control tower was completed at a cost of £10m (€16m).
An extension to the terminal opened in September 2006. This added six gates on a new pier to the South-East of the earlier building.
History of Edinburgh Airport's passenger numbers[4][5]:
| Year | Passengers |
|---|---|
| 1995 | 3,280,000 |
| 1996 | 3,810,000 |
| 1997 | 4,160,000 |
| 1998 | 4,540,000 |
| 1999 | 5,090,000 |
| 2000 | 5,494,000 |
| 2001 | 6,038,341 |
| 2002 | 6,930,649 |
| 2003 | 7,481,454 |
| 2004 | 8,017,577 |
| 2005 | 8,456,739 |
| 2006 | 8,611,345 |
| 2007 | 9,047,558 |
| 2020 | 20,000,000 (projected) |
| 2030 | 26,000,000 (projected) |
Airlines and destinations
- Aer Arann (Cork, Galway)
- Aer Lingus (Dublin)
- Air France
- operated by CityJet (London-City, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- bmi (London-Heathrow)
- operated by bmi Regional (Brussels, Copenhagen, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Zurich)
- operated by bmibaby (Birmingham, Cardiff, East Midlands)
- British Airways (London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow)
- operated by BA CityFlyer (London-City)
- Cimber Air (Billund)
- Continental Airlines (Newark)
- Delta Air Lines (New York-JFK)
- easyJet (Alicante, Amsterdam, Belfast-International, Bristol, Geneva, Kraków, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Flybe (Belfast-City, Bergerac [seasonal], Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Manchester, Newquay [seasonal], Norwich, Rennes, Southampton)
- operated by Loganair (Inverness, Isle of Man, Kirkwall, Lerwick, Sumburgh, Stornoway, Wick)
- Flyglobespan (Alicante, Arrecife, Barcelona, Dalaman, Dubrovnik, Faro, Funchal, Geneva, Ibiza, Málaga, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Pula, Rome-Fiumicino, Sharm el-Sheikh, Tenerife-South, Toronto-Hamilton , Las Palmas)
- Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn)
- Jet2.com (Avignon, Chambery, Dusseldorf [begins 29 March], Ibiza [begins 21 May], La Rochelle, Mahon [begins 21 May], Murcia [begins 30 March], Olbia [begins 16 May], Pisa, Prague, Toulouse, Venice [begins 22 May])
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
- operated by KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Norwegian Air Shuttle (Copenhagen [begins 3 April], Oslo)
- Ryanair (Alicante, Berlin-Schönefeld, Billund, Bologna [begins 31 March 2009], Bournemouth, Bratislava, Bremen, Cagliari [begins 31 March 2009], Dublin, Frankfurt-Hahn, Grenoble Lyon [begins 20 December], Krakow, Lodz, Málaga, Marseille, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Poznan, Shannon, Stockholm-Skavsta, Turin [begins 20 December], Weeze, Wrocław)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Copenhagen, Stockholm-Arlanda)
- Widerøe (Bergen)
Charter airlines
- Air Transat (Toronto-Pearson)
- BH Air (Bourgas, Varna, Plovdiv)
- Eurocypria Airlines (Larnaca, Paphos)
- First Choice Airways (Faro) [seasonal]
- Iberworld (Las Palmas, Madrid, Tenerife-South)
- Karthago Airlines (Monastir)
- Monarch Airlines (Alicante, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Reus, Tenerife-South, Zakynthos)
- Onur Air (Bodrum, Dalaman)
- Thomsonfly (Palma de Mallorca) [seasonal]
Cargo airlines
- Atlantic Airlines (Coventry)
- DHL (East Midlands)
- operated by Exin (Aberdeen)
- Jet2.com (East Midlands, London-Stansted)
- Titan Airways (Bristol, London-Stansted)
- UPS
- operated by Star Air (Cologne, East Midlands)
2007 traffic statistics
| Rank | Airport | Passengers handled | % Change |
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| 1 |  Amsterdam Airport Schiphol |
502,435 | ▲9.96 |
| 2 |  Dublin Airport |
444,557 | ▲6.27 |
| 3 |  Charles de Gaulle International Airport |
240,177 | ▲37.19 |
| 4 |  Frankfurt Airport |
176,358 | ▼1.60 |
| 5 |  Newark Liberty International Airport |
153,444 | ▲15.42 |
| 6 |  Son Sant Joan Airport |
125,937 | ▲7.51 |
| 7 |  Geneva Cointrin International Airport |
117,395 | ▲14.60 |
| 8 | Málaga Airport |
113,519 | ▲35.53 |
| 9 | Alicante Airport |
108,425 | ▲4.20 |
| 10 | Barcelona International Airport |
94,507 | ▲39.33 |
| 11 | Madrid Barajas International Airport |
88,360 | ▲302.66 |
| 12 |  Faro Airport (Portugal) |
79,330 | ▲16.87 |
| 13 | Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport |
75,284 | ▲24.81 |
| 14 | Munich Airport |
69,863 | 0.00 |
| 15 | Murcia-San Javier Airport |
55,847 | ▼4.42 |
Future plans
In April, 2008 work began on the resurfacing of the main runway. This project, at a cost of £16m[5], is due to be completed by the end of November, 2008 and will prolong the life of the runway for a further 15 years[6].
A £40m extension to the departure lounge is to be built, with work commencing in December, 2008[7].
The Edinburgh tram network is due to connect to Edinburgh Airport in 2011[8].
£250m is to be spent on the airport over the next decade[9]. BAA has made provision in its Master Plan for the airport for an extension to the current runway 06/24, which would allow larger aircraft to serve longer haul destinations. There are plans to expand further by adding a new runway and terminal by 2020 which would accommodate up to 20 million passengers per annum[10]. BAA projects that by 2030 Edinburgh Airport will be handling 26 million passengers per annum[11].
Accidents
On 27 February 2001, a Loganair Shorts 360 (G-BNMT) operating a Royal Mail flight to Belfast, crashed into the Firth of Forth shortly after taking off from Edinburgh at 1730 GMT. Both crew members were killed, but there were no passengers on board. A fatal accident inquiry later blamed a build up of slush in the aircraft's engines before the crash. Protective covering had not been fitted to the engine intakes while the aircraft was parked for several hours in heavy snow at Edinburgh. [12]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Passengers, Aircraft Movements 2007
- ↑ UK airports owned and operated by BAA
- ↑ BAA: "Who owns us?"
- ↑ UK Airport Statistics: 2007 - annual | Data | Economic Regulation
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7739554.stm
- ↑ http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/transport/display.var.2469632.0.More_investment_for_airport_following_runway_resurfacing.php
- ↑ http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/transport/display.var.2469632.0.More_investment_for_airport_following_runway_resurfacing.php
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/transport/display.var.2469632.0.More_investment_for_airport_following_runway_resurfacing.php
- ↑ [2]
- ↑ [3]
- ↑ Scotsman: Pilots praised as sheriff confirms snow caused crash, 13 November 2003
- United Kingdom AIP
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