Humberside Airport

Infobox Airport
name = Humberside Airport
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IATA = HUY
ICAO = EGNJ
type = Public
owner-oper = Manchester Airports Group
city-served = Eastern England, primarily Lincolnshire, East Midlands, East Yorkshire
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elevation-f = 121
elevation-m = 37
coordinates = Coord|53|34|28|N|000|21|03|W|display=inline|type:airport
website = [http://www.humbersideairport.com/ www.humbersideairport.com]
metric-rwy = yes
r1-number = 03/21
r1-length-f = 7,205
r1-length-m = 2,196
r1-surface = Asphalt & Concrete
r2-number = 09/27
r2-length-f = 3,428
r2-length-m = 1,045
r2-surface = Asphalt
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stat-year = 2006
stat1-header = Aircraft Movments
stat1-data = 37,545
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footnotes = Statistics from UK CAA [ [http://www.caa.co.uk/docs/80/airport_data/200609/Table_03_Aircraft_Movements.pdf Table 3 Aircraft Movments] ]
Source: United Kingdom AIP [ [http://www.ais.org.uk/ UK Aeronautical Information Service] ]

Humberside Airport Airport codes|HUY|EGNJ is situated in North Lincolnshire, England, 10 nautical miles (18.5 km) west of Grimsby and around 15 miles (21 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.

The airport faces competition for flights from East Midlands Airport (70 miles), Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield (28 miles) which opened in 2005 and Leeds Bradford Airport (74 miles); all of these airports offer a substantially wider range of scheduled flights than Humberside Airport. 516,000 scheduled and charter passengers were handled during 2006, a 13% increase over 2005, putting the airport in 29th position in the UK. 2007 saw a 9.5%reduction in passengers to 467,000 and the moving annual total to July 2008 has dropped to 446,000 per provisional CAA statistics.

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 kindFact|date=February 2007. It is a major operating base for helicopters flying to North Sea gas platforms.

Humberside International has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P739) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.

History

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 03/21 runway was extended to its current length in 1992, allowing operation of much larger aircraft.

Airlines and destinations

cheduled Destinations

* Eastern Airways (Aberdeen)
* KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)

Charter Destinations

* BH Air (Bourgas via Belfast-International)
* First Choice Airways (Faro, Palma de Mallorca)
* Thomsonfly (Palma de Mallorca)

References

External links

* [http://www.humbersideairport.com Humberside Airport homepage]