| Humberside Airport | |||
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| IATA: HUY – ICAO: EGNJ | |||
| Summary | |||
| Airport type | Public | ||
| Owner | Manchester Airports Group | ||
| Operator | Humberside International Airport Ltd. | ||
| Serves | East Riding of Yorkshire, Lincolnshire | ||
| Location | Kirmington, Lincolnshire | ||
| Elevation AMSL | 121 ft / 37 m | ||
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| Runways | |||
| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 02/20 | 2,196 | 7,205 | Asphalt & Concrete |
| 08/26 | 939 | 3,081 | Asphalt |
| Statistics (2010) | |||
| Passengers, 2010 | 283,160 15.9% | ||
| Aircraft Movements, 2010 | 32,813 6.4% | ||
| Freight, 2010 | 600.2t 149.3% | ||
| Sources: UK AIP at NATS[1] Statistics from the UK Civil Aviation Authority[2] |
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Humberside Airport (IATA: HUY, ICAO: EGNJ) is situated at Kirmington in the Borough of North Lincolnshire, England, 10 NM (19 km; 12 mi)[1] west of Grimsby and around 15 mi (24 km) from both Kingston upon Hull and Scunthorpe, on the A18. It is a small international airport, owned by the Manchester Airports Group (MAG), the largest UK-owned airport group, acquiring Humberside Airport in 1999. In 2008, MAG announced that it was conducting a review of their strategy for Humberside Airport, and all options including disposal were under consideration. In December 2008, MAG announced they intend to retain Humberside Airport, due to a number of investments, such as the new £1.6 million perishables hub. There has also been the recent development of a new hotel for the use by the oil rig workers and other business passengers and airport related business. The hotel is a temporary structure run by Nightel, a locally based niche business, there will be a permanent structure built in the next five years once demand for the facility has been confirmed.
The airport faces competition for flights from East Midlands Airport (70 mi (110 km)), Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield (28 mi (45 km)) which opened in 2005 and Leeds Bradford International Airport (74 mi (119 km)); all of these airports offer a substantially wider range of scheduled flights than Humberside Airport. 282,566 passengers were handled during 2009, a significant reduction since 2008, making the airport the 28th busiest airport in the UK.[2]
The airport has a very high amount of general aviation activity, with 5 resident flying clubs and organisations, this is due to the airport having some of the lowest landing and handling fees of its kind. It is a major operating base for helicopters flying to North Sea gas platforms, and is in fact the second busiest heliport in the UK, behind Aberdeen Airport in Scotland. Also, from 1 June 2011, Weston Aviation is to open an FBO at Humberside International airport. This will be the first dedicated fixed based operation, (FBO), at the airport and the company will also open a regional charter sales office at the airport to promote and develop the use of business and private aviation in the local Humberside region.
The Airport also serves as a crew base for KLM Cityhopper Flights.
Humberside International has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P739) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.
According to Airports Council International, Humberside Airport was voted the best in the UK and 9th in the world.
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The airport was previously a Royal Air Force base, RAF Kirmington, opened in 1941 during World War II, from which No. 166 Squadron RAF operated the Avro Lancaster. The site was abandoned after the war in 1945, and lay unused until 1974 when the local council re-opened the site as Kirmington Airport. When the local area was renamed Humberside following local government re-organisation in England, the name was changed to Humberside Airport. The main runway, designated 03/21 (now 02/20) was extended to its current length in 1992, allowing operation of much larger aircraft.
The airport used to have seasonal service to Alicante Airport with Ryanair this was terminated in October 2011.
| Airlines | Destinations |
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| Air Australia | Seasonal: Larnaca |
| BH Air | Seasonal: Bourgas |
| Eastern Airways | Aberdeen |
| Flybe | Seasonal: Jersey |
| KLM operated by KLM Cityhopper | Amsterdam |
| Thomas Cook Airlines | Seasonal: Dalaman, Palma de Mallorca |
| Tor Air | Seasonal: Heraklion |
Icelandair Cargo operate a weekly Sunday flight from Keflavík which then departs to Liege[3]
| Rank | Airport | Passengers handled | % Change 2009 / 10 |
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| 1 | Netherlands - Amsterdam | 113,714 | 6 | |
| 2 | United Kingdom - Aberdeen | 27,053 | 15 | |
| 3 | Turkey - Dalaman | 19,619 | 8 | |
| 4 | Cyprus - Larnaca | 16,114 | 20 | |
| 5 | Spain - Palma de Mallorca | 15,409 | 40 | |
| 6 | Greece - Heraklion | 12,192 | 3 | |
| 7 | Turkey - Antalya | 8,753 | 14 | |
| 8 | Spain - Malaga | 3,333 | new | |
| 9 | Bulgaria - Bourgas | 3,162 | no change | |
| 10 | United Kingdom - Jersey | 2,257 | no change | |
| Source: UK Civil Aviation Authority [1] | ||||
An hourly daytime bus service runs from Grimsby and Hull to the airport from Monday to Saturday.
The airline Eastern Airways has its head office in the Schiphol House on the airport property.[4]
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