Benbecula Airport

Benbecula Airport
Port-adhair Beinn na Faoghla

Airport buildings

IATA: BEB – ICAO: EGPL

Summary

Airport type

Private

Operator

Highlands and Islands Airports Limited

Serves

Benbecula

Location

Balivanich

Elevation AMSL

19 ft / 6 m

Coordinates

57°28′52″N 007°21′46″W / 57.48111°N 7.36278°WCoordinates: 57°28′52″N 007°21′46″W / 57.48111°N 7.36278°W

Website

Benbecula Airport

Map

EGPL

Location in Scotland

Runways

Direction	Length		Surface
Direction	m	ft	Surface
06/24	1,836	6,023	Asphalt
17/35	1,220	4,003	Asphalt

Statistics (2012)

Movements	4,478
Passengers	31,364

Sources: UK AIP at NATS^[1]
Statistics from the UK Civil Aviation Authority^[2]

Benbecula Airport (Scottish Gaelic: Port-adhair Bheinn na Faoghla) (IATA: BEB, ICAO: EGPL) is located on the island of Benbecula in the Outer Hebrides, off the West Coast of Scotland. It is a small rural airport owned and maintained by Highlands and Islands Airports Limited.

Airlines and destinations

The airport provides scheduled services to the Scottish mainland and other Hebridean islands. In so doing it provides vital transport connections for the islands of Benbecula, North Uist and South Uist, which are interlinked by causeway but are over two hours from the mainland by sea. The airport is also used by emergency air ambulance flights and by flights supporting the nearby missile test range.

Airlines	Destinations
Flybe operated by Loganair	Glasgow, Inverness (via Stornoway) Stornoway

References

External links

Official website

Airports of Scotland

Primary	Aberdeen Edinburgh Dundee Glasgow International Glasgow Prestwick Inverness Kirkwall Sumburgh

Regional	Barra Benbecula Broadford Campbeltown Coll Colonsay Cumbernauld Eday Fair Isle Fife Foula Glasgow Seaplane Terminal Glasgow City Heliport Islay RAF Kinloss Lerwick RAF Leuchars RAF Lossiemouth North Ronaldsay Oban Papa Westray Perth Sanday Scatsta Stornoway Stronsay Tiree Westray Wick

Airports in the United Kingdom, the British Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories

England

Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Cornwall Doncaster Sheffield Durham Tees Valley East Midlands Exeter Humberside Leeds Bradford Liverpool London City London Gatwick London Heathrow London Luton London Southend London Stansted Manchester Newcastle Norwich Southampton

Smaller	Blackpool Shoreham (Brighton City) Cambridge Carlisle Cotswold Coventry Gloucestershire Land's End Leicester London Biggin Hill London Oxford Lydd Nottingham St Mary's Wolverhampton

Scotland

Aberdeen Edinburgh Glasgow International Glasgow Prestwick Inverness

Smaller	Barra Benbecula Campbeltown Coll Colonsay Dundee Eday Fair Isle Islay Kirkwall Lerwick North Ronaldsay Oban Papa Westray Sanday Scatsta Stornoway Stronsay Sumburgh Tiree Westray Wick

Wales

Cardiff

Smaller	Aberporth Anglesey Caernarfon Cardiff Heliport Haverfordwest Hawarden Llanbedr Pembrey Swansea Welshpool

Northern Ireland

Belfast City Belfast International Derry

Smaller	Enniskillen/St Angelo Newtownards

Crown Dependencies

Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey

Smaller	Alderney

Overseas Territories

Smaller airports handle domestic, charter or private services only

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