Humberside Airport

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IATA: HUY ICAO: EGNJ
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Manchester Airports Group
Serves	Kingston upon Hull
Elevation AMSL	121 ft / 37 m
Coordinates	53°34′28″N 000°21′03″W
Website	www.humbersideairport.com
Runways
Direction Length Surface m ft 03/21 2,196 7,205 Asphalt & Concrete 09/27 1,045 3,428 Asphalt
Statistics (2006)
Aircraft Movments 37,545
Statistics from UK CAA Source: United Kingdom AIP

Humberside Airport (IATA: HUY, ICAO: EGNJ) is situated in North Lincolnshire, England, 10 nautical miles (18.5 km) west of Grimsby and 15 miles (21 km) south of Kingston upon Hull, England on the A18. It is a small international airport, owned by the Manchester Airports Group, the largest UK-owned airport group, acquiring Humberside Airport in 2001.

The airport now faces strong competition for flights from East Midlands Airport (70 miles) and Robin Hood Airport Doncaster Sheffield (28 miles) which opened in 2005; both 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. The first five months of 2007 saw a modest reduction in passengers handled.

Unusually, Humberside Airport does not use another UK airport as its hub, but Amsterdam Schiphol Airport, this is unique for a mainland UK airport.

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.

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 166 Squadron RAF operated the Lancaster Bomber. 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. The airport gained some notoriety in 1987 when it was discovered that it was being used as the gateway to a major cocaine smuggliong ring run by the Yardies.

Airlines and destinations

Scheduled Destinations

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

Charter Destinations

• First Choice (Summer - Bodrum, Dalaman, Faro, Larnaca, Palma, Tenerife)

(Winter - Tenerife)

• MyTravel Airways (Alicante, Arrecife, Dalaman, Heraklion, Larnaca, Faro, Fuerteventura,

Las Palmas, Ibiza, Mahon, Monastir, Palma, Tenerife)

• Thomas Cook (Antalya, Bodrum, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Larnaca, Lanzarote, Las Palmas,

Madeira, Palma, Tenerife south)

• XL Airways (Palma)
• Discover Jersey (Jersey, Guernsey)
• Thomson (Alicante, Costa Blanca, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Majorca, Menorca, Tenerife)
• Island Cruises (Majorca)

• 
  KLM Fokker 50 on the Southern Apron
• 
  EGNJ from the North
• 
  Finals for 03

External links

• Humberside Airport homepage
• Template:Mmuk phoetc The eastern runway of the original, standard World War II era triangle of runways has been abandoned but can still be clearly seen in the aerial photo.