Edinburgh Airport
Edinburgh Airport (IATA EDI, ICAO: EGPH) is an airport in Scotland. It is one of seven airports in the United Kingdom owned by the company BAA, which also owns Glasgow Airport and Aberdeen Airport in Scotland. [3] It is served by many different airlines including Scot Airways, British Airways, EasyJet, BMI, Continental Airlines, Air France, and Lufthansa. The airport has good road links to the city centre with a bus running every 10 minutes from the airport to the centre of Edinburgh, a number of taxis are always available. Just over 9 million people a year use the airport, but there are plans to make the airport bigger in the future.
Edinburgh Airport | |||
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IATA: EDI – ICAO: EGPH | |||
Summary | |||
Airport type | Public | ||
Owner | Global Infrastructure Partners | ||
Operator | Edinburgh Airport Ltd. | ||
Serves | Edinburgh, Glasgow, Lothian, Fife, the Scottish Borders and Central Scotland | ||
Location | Ingliston, Edinburgh, United Kingdom | ||
Elevation AMSL | 136 ft / 41 m | ||
Coordinates | 55°57′00″N 003°22′21″W / 55.95000°N 3.37250°WCoordinates: 55°57′00″N 003°22′21″W / 55.95000°N 3.37250°W | ||
Website | |||
Map | |||
Location in Edinburgh | |||
Runways | |||
Direction | Length | Surface | |
m | ft | ||
06/24 | 2,556 | 8,386 | Asphalt |
Statistics (2018) | |||
Passengers | 14,294,305 | ||
Passenger change 17–18 | 6.6% | ||
Aircraft movements | 130,016 | ||
Movements change 17–18 | 1.1% | ||
Sources: UK AIP at NATS[1] Statistics from the UK Civil Aviation Authority[2] |
On 19th October 2011, BAA Limited said that it is going to sell Edinburgh Airport. This was done following a decision by the UK's Competition Commission which said that BAA needs to sell either Glasgow or Edinburgh Airport.[4]
Accidents
In February 2001 a Shorts 360 crashed shortly after taking off from Edinburgh Airport. Both pilots were killed but there were no passengers on board as it was a mail-carrying flight.[5]
Edinburgh Airport Media
Departure gate area (2009)
Air Traffic Control tower (2010)
Airlink 100 bus on Waverley Bridge
References
- ↑ "NATS – AIS – Home". Ead-it.com. Archived from the original on 17 October 2015. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
- ↑ "Aircraft and passenger traffic data from UK airports". UK Civil Aviation Authority. 3 March 2017. Archived from the original on 11 February 2017. Retrieved 18 March 2018.
- ↑ "Edinburgh Airport Guide (EDI)". Archived from the original on 2009-03-12. Retrieved 2009-03-05.
- ↑ "Heathrow: Corporate site - Our company, your airport". www.heathrow.com.
- ↑ "Accident description". Archived from the original on 2011-05-14. Retrieved 2009-03-05.