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 | ||
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| Direction | Length | Surface | |
| m | ft | ||
| 03/21 | 2,196 | 7,205 | Asphalt & Concrete |
| 09/27 | 1,045 | 3,428 | Asphalt |
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| Aircraft Movments | 37,545 | ||
| Statistics from UK CAA[1] Source: United Kingdom AIP [2] |
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Humberside Airport (IATA: HUY, ICAO: 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, the largest UK-owned airport group, acquiring Humberside Airport in 1999.
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. The first five months of 2007 saw a modest reduction in passengers handled.
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[citation needed]. 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.
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[edit] 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.
[edit] Airlines and destinations
[edit] Scheduled Destinations
- Eastern Airways (Aberdeen)
- KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
[edit] Charter Destinations
- Air Europa (Las Palmas, Palma de Mallorca, Tenerife-South)
- Discover Jersey (Guernsey, Jersey)
- Eurocypria (Heraklion, Larnaca)
- First Choice Airways (Faro, Palma de Mallorca)
- Futura International Airways (Gran Canaria, Mahon, Tenerife-South)
- LTE International Airways (Arrecife)
- Pegasus Airlines (Dalaman)
- Thomsonfly (Palma de Mallorca)
 EGNJ from the North |
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