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Edinburgh Airport
Edinburgh Airport - Taxi rank.jpg
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°W / 55.95000; -3.37250
Map
EGPH is located in Edinburgh
EGPH
EGPH
Location in Edinburgh
Runway
Runway Length Surface
m ft
06/24 2,556 8,386 Asphalt
Statistics (2018)
Passengers 14,294,305
Passenger change 17–18 Increase6.6%
Aircraft movements 130,016
Movements change 17–18 Increase1.1%
Sources: UK AIP at NATS
Statistics from the UK Civil Aviation Authority
Edinburgh Airport Control Tower
The new control tower at 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. 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.

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.

Accidents

In February of 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.

Images for kids

  • Aerial travel for Business or Pleasure - Thos Cook & Son - 1919 - pp 16+ (map)

    "Map of Air Routes and Landing Places in Great Britain, as temporarily arranged by the Air Ministry for civilian flying", published in 1919, showing Turnhouse as a "military and civil station".

  • EDI AIRPORT FROM FLIGHT ORY-KEF 757 ICELANDAIR TF-FIK (35461420664)

    Aerial view of Edinburgh Airport

  • New Airlink Bus

    Airlink 100 bus on Waverley Bridge

  • Edinburgh Gateway Tram Stop from the station,

    Edinburgh Gateway station interchange stop

  • Edinburgh Airport tram terminus - looking north

    Edinburgh Airport tram terminus

See also

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