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Edinburgh Airport , (also called Turnhouse) located in Edinburgh, Scotland, is the eighth largest international airport in the UK. It is located 8 miles (13 km) west of the city centre.
Edinburgh Airport is owned by BAA plc, the company that also owns London Heathrow, London Gatwick, London Stansted, Glasgow, Aberdeen and Southampton airports.
The present terminal building, designed by Robert Matthew, was constructed in 1977 and has been heavily upgraded in recent years, with new car parking facilities and an extended arrivals hall. A new control tower was completed in 2005.
Airlines and destinations
- Aer Arann (Cork, Galway)
- Aer Lingus (Dublin)
- Air France (Paris-Charles de Gaulle)
- Air Scotland (Alicante, Málaga)
- Air Transat (Toronto)
- Atlantic Airways (Vágar)
- bmi (Brussels, Copenhagen, Jersey, Leeds/Bradford, London-Heathrow, Manchester (UK), Stornoway)
- bmibaby (Birmingham (UK), Cardiff, Nottingham/East Midlands)
- British Airways (London-Gatwick, London-Heathrow)
- BA Connect (Birmingham (UK), Bristol, Hamburg, London City, Manchester (UK), Paris-Charles de Gaulle, Southampton)
- British Airways operated by Loganair (Inverness, Isle of Man, Kirkwall, Lerwick, Shetland Sumburgh, Stornoway, Wick)
- British Airways operated by Sun Air (Billund)
- Centralwings (Gdansk, Katowice, Warsaw)
- Czech Airlines (Prague)
- Continental Airlines (Newark)
- Delta Air Lines (Atlanta)
- easyJet (Alicante, Amsterdam, Belfast International, Bristol, Geneva, London-Gatwick, London-Stansted, London-Luton)
- Finnair (Helsinki)
- Flybe (Belfast City, Birmingham, Exeter, Jersey, Southampton, Newquay, Norwich)
- Flyglobespan (Alicante, Barcelona, Faro, Geneva Ibiza, Mahon, Málaga, Murcia, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Prague [Resumes November 2, Pula, Rome-Fiumicino)
- Germanwings (Cologne/Bonn)
- Jet2.com (Manchester (UK), Murcia, Pisa)
- KLM Royal Dutch Airlines (Amsterdam)
- KLM Cityhopper (Amsterdam)
- Lufthansa (Frankfurt)
- Ryanair (Dublin)
- Scandinavian Airlines System (Stockholm-Arlanda)
- Sky Europe (Krakow)
- Sterling European Airlines (Copenhagen, Helsinki)
- ScotAirways (London City)
- Transaero (Moscow-Domodedovo)
- Widerøe (Bergen)
Future destinations
- Flyglobespan (Arrecife, starts 2 November 2006)
- Flyglobespan (Prague, starts 2 November 2006)
- Flyglobespan (Tenerife, starts 4 November 2006)
- Flyglobespan (Chambery seasonal, starts 23 December 2006)
Future plans
Work is now in progress to charge all private or commercial vehicles entering the airport to pick up or set down passengers, whether the need to park or not. Work is progressing in the installation of many barriers and number plate recognition equipment to enforce this. This is not a way to create revenue but it is for environmental reasons to encourage people to use public transport (BAA).
There are plans to expand Edinburgh airport by adding a further runway, although this is unlikely to be completed in the next 30 years. Because of its east central location, it is easily reached by the M9 and M90 motorways, and is nearby a major railway line meaning that it is within easy reach of some eastern parts of the country.
The Scottish Executive announced in 2003, plans to extend a rail link to Edinburgh Airport. More details can be found on the Edinburgh Airport Rail Link Project website. A proposed tram route is expected to connect to Edinburgh Airport when complete in 2009. Currently an express bus service links the airport to Edinburgh City Centre.
An extension to the terminal is currently being developed. This will add six gates on a new pier to the east of the current building. The extension is scheduled to open in Summer 2006.
Accidents
On 27 February 2001, a Loganair Shorts 360(G-BNMT) operating a Royal Mail flight to Belfast, crashed into the Firth of Forth shortly after taking off from Edinburgh at 1730 GMT. Both crew members were killed, but there were no passengers on board. A fatal accident inquiry later blamed a build up of slush in the aircraft's engines for the crash. Protective covering had not been fitted to the engine intakes while the aircraft was parked for several hours in heavy snow at Edinburgh.
External links
Airports in Scotland | Transport in Edinburgh
Aéroport d'Édimbourg | Аэропорт Эдинбурга | Edinburgh Airport
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