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'Humberside Airport' 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 Airport Group.
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.

Contents

History

Airlines and destinations

Scheduled Destinations

Charter Destinations

References

External links

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)

★ Excel Airways (Palma)

★ Discover Jersey (Jersey, Guernsey)

★ Thomson (Alicante, Costa Blanca, Dalaman, Faro, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Lanzarote, Majorca, Menorca, Tenerife)

★ Island Cruises (Majorca)

References

1. Table 3 Aircraft Movments
2. UK Aeronautical Information Service

External links

★ Humberside Airport homepage

★ 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.