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Humberside Airport
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 / 53.57444, -0.35083
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[1] Source: United Kingdom AIP [2]

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^{[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.

Contents 1 History 2 Airlines and destinations 2.1 Scheduled Destinations 2.2 Charter Destinations 3 References 4 External links

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 smuggling ring run by the Yardies.

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

• 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

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

• Humberside Airport homepage
• Aerial photo of Humberside Airport. Other map and aerial photo sources. 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.

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