Edinburgh Airport
| Edinburgh Airport Port-adhair Dùn Èideann |
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| IATA: EDI – ICAO: EGPH | |||
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| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner/Operator | BAA Limited | ||
| Serves | Edinburgh Lothian Fife Scottish Borders |
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| Location | Turnhouse, Edinburgh | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 136 ft / 41 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 06/24 | 2,557 | 8,389 | Asphalt |
| 12/30 | 1,798 | 5,899 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2009) | |||
| Aircraft Movements | 115,969 | ||
| Passengers | 9,049,355 | ||
| Sources: UK AIP at NATS[1] Statistics from the UK Civil Aviation Authority[2] |
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Edinburgh Airport (IATA: EDI, ICAO: EGPH) is located at Turnhouse in the City of Edinburgh, Scotland, and was the busiest airport in Scotland in 2009, handling just over nine million passengers. It was also the seventh[3] busiest airport in the UK by passengers and the fifth busiest by aircraft movements.[2] It is located 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi)[1] west of the city centre and is situated just off the M8 motorway.
The airport is owned and operated by BAA, which also owns and operates five other UK airports,[4] and is itself owned by ADI Limited, an international consortium, which includes Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec and GIC Special Investments, that is led by the Spanish Ferrovial Group.[5]
The airport is a base of EasyJet and Ryanair. Flyglobespan used to be based at Edinburgh airport but all operations were ceased on 16 December 2009 after going into administration due to financial circumstances.
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 used by the Royal Flying Corps. The small base opened in 1915 and it was used to house the 603 (City of Edinburgh) Squadron from 1925, 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 the Second World War broke out, RAF Fighter Command took control over the airfield and a runway of 3,900 ft was paved to handle the Vickers Supermarine Spitfire. During the Battle of Britain, Nos 3, 65, and 141 Squadrons were present at the airbase.
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 6000 ft to handle the Vampire FB5s; and an aircraft carrier Catcher Net (never used) to protect traffic on the adjacent A9 road. 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. Flying was temporarily diverted to East Fortune, which had its runway extended to accommodate the airliners of the period. 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 main runway 13/31 (which is now 12/30) served the airport well, its alignment had the disadvantage of suffering from severe crosswinds and the other two minor runways were very short and could not be readily extended, so movements were transferred to a new runway (07/25 which has since become 06/24) in an addition completely outside the original airfield boundary. This runway, completed in 1977 is 8399 ft in length, and was able to take all modern airliners including Concorde. 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 called the "South East Pier". This extension initially added six gates on a new pier to the South-East of the original building. A further four gates were added to the South East Pier at the end of 2008.
Airlines and destinations
| Airlines | Destinations |
|---|---|
| Aer Arann | Galway |
| Aer Lingus | Dublin |
| Aer Lingus Regional
operated by Aer Arann
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Cork, Dublin |
| Air Europa | Palma de Mallorca [seasonal] |
| Air France operated by CityJet | Paris-Charles de Gaulle |
| Air Transat | Toronto-Pearson [seasonal] [Currently Suspended] |
| BH Air | Burgas, Sofia, Varna [All Seasonal] |
| Blue1 | Helsinki [begins 29 April; seasonal] |
| BMI | Ibiza [seasonal], London-Heathrow |
| BMI operated by BMI Regional | Brussels, Copenhagen, Leeds/Bradford, London-Heathrow, Manchester, Zürich |
| Bmibaby | Cardiff, East Midlands |
| British Airways | London-Heathrow, London-Gatwick |
| British Airways operated by BA CityFlyer | London-City |
| Cimber Sterling | Copenhagen [seasonal] |
| CityJet | London-City |
| Continental Airlines | Newark |
| EasyJet | All Year: Amsterdam, Belfast-International, Bristol, Cologne/Bonn [begins 26 November], Geneva, Kraków, Lisbon, London-Gatwick, London-Luton, London-Stansted, Lyon, Madrid, Milan-Malpensa, Munich, Nice, Paphos [begins 3 November], Paris-Charles de Gaulle Seasonal: Alicante, Palma de Mallorca |
| EasyJet Switzerland | Basel/Mulhouse [begins 3 December] |
| Flybe | All Year: Belfast-City, Birmingham, Cardiff, Exeter, Guernsey, Jersey, Manchester, Manston, Norwich, Southampton Seasonal: Bergerac, Newquay, Rennes, |
| Flybe operated by Loganair | Isle of Man, Kirkwall, Stornoway, Sumburgh, Wick |
| Fly Niki | Graz [seasonal begins 2011] |
| Germanwings | Cologne/Bonn [seasonal] |
| Iberworld | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Tenerife-South [All Seasonal] |
| Jet2.com | All Year: Budapest [begins 21 April], Prague, Salzburg [begins 21 December] Seasonal: Chambéry, Dubrovnik, Faro, Geneva [Starts 20 February], Ibiza, La Rochelle, Minorca, Murcia, Olbia, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Toulouse, Venice-Marco Polo |
| KLM | Amsterdam |
| KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper | Amsterdam |
| Lufthansa | Frankfurt |
| Lufthansa Regional operated by Lufthansa CityLine | Düsseldorf |
| Monarch Airlines | Corfu, Dalaman, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos [All Seasonal] |
| Norwegian Air Shuttle | Copenhagen, Oslo-Gardermoen, Stockholm-Arlanda |
| Onur Air | Antalya, Bodrum [All Seasonal] |
| Ryanair | All Year: Alicante, Barcelona [starts 6 September], Berlin-Schönefeld, Billund [ends 29 October], Bratislava, Bremen, Brussels South-Charleroi, Dublin, Faro, Fuerteventura [begins 2 November], Gdansk, Gothenburg-City [starts 5 November], Hahn, Kaunas, Kraków, Lanzarote, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Łódź, Lübeck [ends 28 October], Málaga, Malta, Marrakech, Memmingen, Paris-Beauvais, Poznań, Oslo-Torp, Rome-Ciampino, Shannon [ends 29 October], Stockholm-Skavsta, Tampere, Tenerife-South, Weeze Seasonal: Bologna, Bordeaux, Girona, Marseille, Palma de Mallorca, Pisa, Poitiers, Zadar |
| Scandinavian Airlines | Stockholm-Arlanda [seasonal] |
| Spanair | Barcelona, Madrid |
| Star1 Airlines | Vilnius [seasonal] |
| Thomas Cook Airlines | Dalaman, Palma de Mallorca, Antalya [All Seasonal] |
| Thomas Cook Airlines Belgium | Reus [seasonal] |
| Thomson Airways | Bourgas, Corfu, Dalaman, Ibiza, Majorca, Paphos, Sharm El Sheikh [All Seasonal] |
| Vueling | Barcelona [seasonal] |
Cargo airlines
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Atlantic Airlines | Coventry |
| DHL | East Midlands |
| DHL operated by Exin | Aberdeen |
| Jet2.com | Bristol, London-Stansted |
| Titan Airways | Larnaca, Paphos |
| UPS Airlines operated by Bluebird Cargo | Cologne/Bonn, Cork, Reykjavík-Keflávik |
Statistics
Passenger traffic at Edinburgh Airport has increased every year since 1997, except in 2008 when a slight drop was recorded. In 2009, a record 9,049,355 passengers used the airport with 115,969 aircraft movements recorded.[2]
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| Rank | Airport | Passengers handled | % Change | Principal airlines |
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| 1 |  London Heathrow Airport |
1,306,065 |  0.9 |
bmi, British Airways |
| 2 | London Gatwick Airport |
647,908 | 8 |
British Airways, easyJet |
| 3 | London Stansted Airport |
373,714 | 7 |
easyJet |
| 4 | Birmingham Airport |
336,150 | 16 |
bmibaby, Flybe |
| 5 | London City Airport |
326,553 | 12 |
Air France, British Airways |
| 6 | London Luton Airport |
315,623 | 12 |
easyJet |
| 7 | Bristol Airport |
235,196 | 5 |
easyJet |
| 8 | Belfast International Airport |
232,121 | 2 |
easyJet |
| 9 | Southampton Airport |
191,511 | 6 |
Flybe |
| 10 | Cardiff Airport |
161,001 | 0.9 |
bmibaby, Flybe |
| Rank | Airport | Passengers handled | % Change | Principal airlines |
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| 1 |  Amsterdam Airport |
452,560 | 2 |
easyJet, KLM |
| 2 |  Dublin Airport |
444,700 | 1 |
Aer Lingus, Ryanair |
| 3 |  Paris CDG Airport |
279,372 |  0.2 |
Air France, easyJet |
| 4 |  Newark Liberty International Airport |
152,822 | 2 |
Continental Airlines |
| 5 |  Alicante Airport |
137,421 | 9 |
easyJet, Flyglobespan, Ryanair |
| 6 |  Frankfurt Airport |
134,902 | 18 |
Lufthansa |
| 7 | Palma de Mallorca Airport |
133,077 | 18 |
easyJet, Flyglobespan, Ryanair |
| 8 | Malaga Airport |
128,137 | 32 |
Flyglobespan, Ryanair |
| 9 |  Geneva Airport |
115,829 | 3 |
easyJet, Flyglobespan |
| 10 | Madrid Airport |
99,482 | 6 |
easyJet |
| 11 |  Krakow Airport |
90,923 | 65 |
easyJet, Ryanair |
| 12 | Shannon Airport |
86,737 | 50 |
Ryanair |
| 13 |  Milan Malpensa Airport |
82,502 | 6 |
easyJet |
| 14 | Munich Airport |
81,849 | 9 |
easyJet |
| 15 | Niederrhein Airport |
79,581 | 290 |
Ryanair |
| 16 |  Copenhagen Airport |
65,491 | 21 |
bmi, Cimber Sterling, Norwegian Air Shuttle |
| 17 | Bremen Airport |
63,566 | 72 |
Ryanair |
| 18 |  Stockholm Skavsta Airport |
56,128 | 670 |
Ryanair |
| 19 | Frankfurt Hahn Airport |
55,910 | 69 |
Ryanair |
| 20 | Berlin Schönefeld Airport |
53,971 | 601 |
Ryanair |
Access and ground transportation
The airport lies on the A8 Glasgow-Edinburgh road, and can be easily reached by the M8 (from Glasgow) and the M9 (from Stirling). The airport is also within easy access from the M90 motorway (from Perth) via the Forth Road Bridge.
Lothian Buses provide public transportation to the airport with the Airlink 100 express bus from Edinburgh city centre,[8] as well as local bus services. Additionally, Stagecoach operates the AirDirect 747 express bus service between the airport and Inverkeithing railway station and Ferrytoll Park and Ride in Fife, and the Gyle Shopping Centre and Heriot-Watt University.[9]
There are currently no direct rail links to Edinburgh Airport, although it lies very close to the Fife Circle and the Edinburgh-Glasgow railway lines. A project to build the Edinburgh Airport Rail Link was cancelled in 2007 due to funding problems.[10]
Transport links
Work is underway to construct a light rail link from the airport to Edinburgh city centre on the Edinburgh Trams network. The new system will run from an airport station across the western suburbs of Edinburgh on a segregated track; when the trams reach Haymarket railway station they will switch to street-running mode and travel through the city along Princes Street. Edinburgh Trams are expected to begin operation around 2011 or 2012.[11]
As a cheaper alternative to the cancelled Edinburgh Airport Rail Link project, it has been proposed that an additional interchange station be constructed on the Fife Circle Line. Gogar railway station would provide interchange with airport tram services. This proposal has not yet been approved or funded.[12]
Future plans
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Edinburgh Airport
Infrastructure
In April, 2008 work began on the resurfacing of the main runway. This project, at a cost of £16m,[13] was due to be completed by the end of November, 2008 and will prolong the life of the runway for a further 15 years.[14] In the end, the work was completed around 10 days ahead of schedule and on budget.[15]
A £40m extension to the departure lounge has been built, work commenced in December, 2008.[14]
£250m is to be spent on the airport over the next decade.[14] 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.[16] BAA projects that by 2030 Edinburgh Airport will be handling 26 million passengers per annum. Development has recently begun at Edinburgh Airport on a £40 million departure lounge extension project which will see the current lounge double in size as well as a new security search area and a greater choice bars, restaurants and shops. The departure lounge opened on 18/11/09.[17]
Accidents and incidents
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, and 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.[18][19]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Edinburgh - EGPH
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 UK Airport Statistics: 2009 - annual
- ↑ "Official CAA stats 2009". CAA. http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/80/airport_data/2009Annual/Table_01_Size_of_UK_Airports_2009_Comp_2004.pdf.
- ↑ UK airports owned and operated by BAA
- ↑ BAA: "Who we are"
- ↑ Number of Movements represents total aircraft takeoffs and landings during that year.
- ↑ UK Airport Statistics
- ↑ "Edinburgh Airport - City Centre frequent express shuttle". Lothian Buses. http://www.flybybus.com/. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
- ↑ "Airdirect 747". Stagecoach Group. http://www.airdirect747.com. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
- ↑ "It's £30m down the drain". The Scotsman. http://news.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=607&id=1546642007. Retrieved 2010-01-20.
- ↑ "Route map". Edinburgh Trams. 2009. http://www.edinburghtrams.com/index.php/route_map/. Retrieved 20 January 2010.
- ↑ Stevenson, Stewart; (Minister for Transport) (27 September 2007). "Edinburgh Airport Rail Link". Scottish Parliament. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/News/This-Week/Speeches/edinburgh-rail-link/. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
- ↑ Runway revamp ready for take-off
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 14.2 /display.var.2469632.0.More_investment_for_airport_following_runway_resurfacing.php More investment for airport following runway resurfacing
- ↑ New look runway set for take off after £16m upgrade project heralds "great future" for capital's airport
- ↑ Evidence supporting airport expansion is flawed, says government adviser
- ↑ Edinburgh Airport outlines 2030 vision
- ↑ Scotsman: Pilots praised as sheriff confirms snow caused crash, 13 November 2003
- ↑ http://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=20010227-0 Accident description and details.
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