Newcastle Airport

Newcastle International Airport
IATA: NCLICAO: EGNT
Summary
Airport type Public
Owner Newcastle Airport Local Authority Holding Company Ltd (51%), AMP Capital (49%).
Operator Newcastle International Airport Ltd
Serves Tyne and Wear
County Durham
Cumbria
North Yorkshire
Northumberland
Location Woolsington, Newcastle upon Tyne
Elevation AMSL 266 ft / 81 m
Coordinates 55°02′17″N 001°41′23″W / 55.03806°N 1.68972°W / 55.03806; -1.68972Coordinates: 55°02′17″N 001°41′23″W / 55.03806°N 1.68972°W / 55.03806; -1.68972
Website newcastleairport.com
Map
EGNT

Location in Tyne and Wear

Runways
Direction Length Surface
m ft
07/25 2,329 7,641 Asphalt
Statistics (2015)
Passengers 4,562,853
Passenger change 14-15 Increase1.0%
Aircraft Movements 55,950
Movements change 14-15 Decrease5.4%
Sources: UK AIP at NATS[1]
Statistics from the UK Civil Aviation Authority[2]

Newcastle International Airport (IATA: NCL, ICAO: EGNT) is an international airport located near the Woolsington area of Newcastle upon Tyne, England, 5 nautical miles (9.3 km; 5.8 mi)[1] north-west of the city centre. In 2015 it was the 10th busiest airport in the United Kingdom, handling over 4.5 million passengers.[2] Newcastle Airport has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P725) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.

The airport is owned by seven local authorities (51%) and AMP Capital (49%). The seven local authorities are: City of Newcastle, City of Sunderland, Durham County Council, Gateshead MBC, North Tyneside MBC, Northumberland County Council and South Tyneside MBC. On 27 October 2012 Copenhagen Airport sold the stake in the airport to AMP Capital, which is an Australian-based Investment Management Company.

History

The Airport was opened on 26 July 1935 as Woolsington Aerodrome by the Secretary of State for Air, Sir Phillip Cunliffe-Lister. Incorporating a clubhouse, hangar, workshops, fuel garage and grass runway, at the time it cost £35,000 to build.

Although during World War II the main airport in the region was located at Cramlington in Northumberland, following the war a decision was taken to concentrate development on the present airport site. Accordingly, in the early 1950s, ex-RAF fighter pilot Jim Denyer was appointed as Airport Manager and within a few years over 5,000 people were using the Airport each year to travel to destinations such as Jersey and the Isle of Wight.

The 1960s saw tremendous growth in passenger numbers at the airport. This was mainly due to British people taking foreign holidays to places such as Spain instead of holidaying within the UK. A new runway was built, along with an apron and a new air traffic control tower. These new additions were opened by the then-Prime Minister, Harold Wilson.

Newcastle Airport in 1972

In the 1970s, with passenger figures approaching one million per year, the Airport status was changed to Category B, making it a regional international airport, in the same decade it was re-branded as Newcastle Airport. The 80's saw further investment in check-in, catering and duty-free shops. In 1991, Airport Metro station opened, connecting the airport with Newcastle city centre using the Tyne and Wear Metro system. A new £27 million extension was opened in 2000 by then-Prime Minister Tony Blair and the first low-cost airline arrived at the airport, with Go inaugurating a service to London Stansted following the collapse of locally based Gill Airways. 2001 saw the acquisition of a 49% stake in the Airport by Copenhagen Airports.

In August 2004 an extended and refurbished Departure Terminal was opened. The refurbishment comprised a 3,000 square metre extension which included new shops, cafes and 1,200 new waiting seats.[3]

In 2006 a record 5.4 million passengers used the Airport, according to Civil Aviation Authority figures.

Rapid expansion in passenger traffic has led to increasing commercial utilisation of the south-side of the airport, which was previously used for general aviation, and is now used for freight, mail and corporate flights. This is partially due to difficulties obtaining departure and arrival slots for light aircraft traffic, which need to be separated from larger aircraft to protect against wake turbulence. As part of the Airport Master Plan, the south-side area is to be expanded with maintenance facilities including new hangar and apron areas.

Other airport facilities

Main hall

When Gill Airways existed, its head office was in the New Aviation House, on the airport property.[4]

Also, the Newcastle Airport Freight Village which is located beside the Airport, bases Emirates SkyCargo, FedEx, Servisair Cargo and NorthEast Air Cargo company offices to deal with freight such as mail and cargo to export and import goods to and from Newcastle and across the world. It also houses Freight Forwarding Agents such as; Camair, DHL, Kintetsu World Express, Kuehne & Nagel, Nippon Express, Schenker International, Davis Turner Air Cargo and Universal Forwarding. The Airport is also home to the Newcastle Airport Fire Academy.[5][6]

The Newcastle Aviation Academy is also located within this area.

It was reported in the Evening Chronicle that the airport was looking for a sponsor to build a new observation deck at the airport's old control tower. No information has been given in terms of a start date, but as highlighted above, they are in the process of finding a sponsor for the work.

Area served

The airport mainly serves the City of Newcastle, the greater Tyneside area, Northumberland and Wearside. The airport competes with the smaller Durham Tees Valley Airport for passengers travelling from and to County Durham and Teesside. Passengers from Cumbria, North Yorkshire and southern Scotland also use the airport, the nearest similar sized airport being Leeds Bradford Airport to the south and the larger Edinburgh and Glasgow International airports to the north. In terms of passenger numbers, Newcastle is the second largest airport in the North of England, after Manchester Airport.

Airlines and destinations

Passenger

AirlinesDestinations
Aer Lingus Regional
operated by Stobart Air
Cork, Dublin
Air France
operated by CityJet
Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Air Europa Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca
BH Air Seasonal: Burgas, Varna
BMI Regional Brussels, Stavanger (begins 31 May 2016)
British Airways London-Heathrow
Bulgaria Air Seasonal: Sofia
Citywing
operated by Van Air Europe
Isle of Man
Eastern Airways Aberdeen, Birmingham, Cardiff
easyJet Alicante, Barcelona, Belfast-International, Bristol, Faro, Geneva, Málaga, Malta
Seasonal: Corfu, Jersey, Nice, Palma de Mallorca, Rhodes, Split, Tenerife-South
Emirates Dubai-International
Eurowings Düsseldorf
Evelop Airlines Seasonal: Palma de Mallorca
Flybe Belfast-City (ends 30 June 2016), Exeter, Southampton
Seasonal: Newquay
Jet2.com Alicante, Gran Canaria, Kraków, Lanzarote, Malaga, Funchal, Prague, Tenerife-South
Seasonal: Antalya, Bodrum, Chambéry, Corfu, Dalaman, Dubrovnik, Enfidha, Faro, Fuerteventura, Girona (begins 20 May 2016), Grenoble (begins 23 December 2016),[7] Heraklion, Ibiza, Larnaca, Malta, Mahón, Murcia, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Pisa, Reus, Rhodes, Rome-Fiumicino, Zakynthos
KLM Amsterdam
Pegasus Airlines Seasonal: Dalaman
Ryanair Alicante, Dublin, Gdansk (begins 31 October 2016), Malaga, Warsaw-Modlin (begins 1 November 2016), Wroclaw (begins 30 October 2016) [8]
Seasonal: Lanzarote (begins 2 November 2016), Tenerife South (begins 1 November 2016) [9]
Scandinavian Airlines Copenhagen
Thomas Cook Airlines Lanzarote, Sharm el-Sheikh (suspended; resumes 7 November 2016), Tenerife-South
Seasonal: Antalya, Bourgas, Corfu, Dalaman, Fuerteventura, Gran Canaria, Ibiza, Kos, Larnaca, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos (begins 2 May 2017), Reus, Rhodes, Santorini, Skiathos, Zakynthos
Thomas Cook Airlines
operated by Avion Express
Seasonal: Almeria (begins 29 May 2017), Bodrum (begins 12 May 2016), Dalaman (begins 23 May 2016), Fuerteventura (begins 7 May 2016), Heraklion (begins 31 May 2016), Ibiza, Kefalonia (begins 15 May 2016), Mahón (begins 13 May 2016), Palma de Mallorca (begins 6 May 2016), Reus, Zakynthos (begins 29 May 2016)
Thomson Airways Alicante, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Málaga, Sharm el-Sheikh (suspended), Tenerife-South
Seasonal: Antalya, Barbados, Bodrum, Bourgas, Cancún, Corfu, Dalaman, Dubrovnik, Dubai-Al Maktoum (begins 26 December 2016), Enfidha (suspended), Faro, Funchal, Geneva Heraklion, Ibiza, Kefalonia, Kos, Larnaca, Montego Bay, Mahón, Naples, Orlando-Sanford, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Reus, Rhodes, Salzburg, Turin, Zakynthos
United Airlines Seasonal: Newark
Vueling Barcelona

Cargo

AirlinesDestinations
FedEx Express
operated by ASL Airlines Ireland
Glasgow, Paris-Charles de Gaulle
Royal Mail
operated by West Atlantic
London-Stansted
Royal Mail
operated by Jet2.com
East Midlands

Statistics

The airport saw significant growth in the ten years to 2007, when passenger numbers peaked at 5.65 million, more than double the number handled ten years earlier. Passenger numbers declined in the subsequent four years due to the financial crisis of 2007–2010, with around 4.5 million passengers passing through the airport in 2015 (below the 2004 total), although cargo volumes have broadly increased to record levels since 2005.[2]

Traffic figures

Newcastle Airport Passenger Totals 1997-2015 (millions)
Updated: 10 April 2016.[2]
Number of passengers[nb 1]
Number of movements[nb 2]
Freight
(tonnes)[2]
Mail
(tonnes)[2]
1997 2,642,591 81,279 1,219 3,489
1998 2,984,724 81,299 678 3,631
1999 2,994,051 79,291 776 3,409
2000 3,208,734 82,940 526 3,720
2001 3,431,393 82,524 783 2,859
2002 3,426,952 79,173 1,438 2,368
2003 3,920,204 75,113 924 2,576
2004 4,724,263 77,721 799 7,756
2005 5,200,806 77,882 199 7,820
2006 5,431,976 81,655 306 7,884
2007 5,650,716 79,200 785 8,483
2008 5,039,993 72,904 1,938 10,901
2009 4,587,883 69,254 2,597 9,758
2010 4,356,130 66,677 3,650 9,062
2011 4,346,270 64,521 3,059 8,532
2012 4,366,196 61,006 2,956 7,929
2013 4,420,839 59,962 3,701 6,512
2014 4,516,739 59,114 4,450 4,738
2015 4,562,853 55,950 3,717 4,633

Busiest routes

Thomson Airways Boeing 737 at Newcastle Airport in 2014
British Airways Airbus A321 bound for London Heathrow
Newcastle Airport's control tower
RAF Tornado at Newcastle Airport
Busiest domestic routes to and from Newcastle Airport (2014)[2]
Rank Airport Passengers handled % Change
2013 / 14
1 London Heathrow478,806Steady0
2 Belfast International196,738Increase2
3 Bristol174,461Steady0
4 London Gatwick105,336Increase29
5 Southampton99,501Increase9
6 Aberdeen 30,168Decrease2
7 Belfast City28,882Decrease31
8 Jersey14,720Decrease18
9 Exeter12,844Decrease57
10 Cardiff11,778Decrease6
11 Birmingham8,305Increase4
12 Isle of Man4,573Decrease5
13 Newquay2,406Steady0
Busiest international routes to and from Newcastle Airport (2014)[2]
Rank Airport Passengers handled % Change
2013 / 14
1Amsterdam366,540Increase3
2Palma de Mallorca246,429Increase3
3Alicante232,872Decrease8
4Dubai215,737Increase8
5Tenerife South183,842Increase8
6Dublin180,340Increase29
7Malaga179,195Decrease2
8Paris Charles de Gaulle150,709Increase7
9Dalaman134,236Decrease2
10Faro120,939Decrease1
11Lanzarote89,912Increase8
12Ibiza75,932Decrease1
13Barcelona66,389Increase1
14Sharm el-Sheikh57,433Decrease3
15Las Palmas48,588Decrease5
16Paphos47,541Decrease8
17Enfidha45,144Decrease1
18Murcia40,956Decrease10
19Corfu40,927Decrease2
20Mahon40,582Decrease4

Ground transport

Metro

Airport Metro Station

Airport station on the Tyne and Wear Metro is directly connected to the terminal through an indoor walkway. The station is the northern terminus of the green line with frequent direct services to all the main Newcastle and Sunderland City Centre Metro Stations (approx 20 and 50 minutes respectively).

Road transport

The Airport is connected to the A1 trunk road by the A696 dual carriageway. A half-hourly bus service links the Airport to the nearby villages of Ponteland and Darras Hall, as well as to the City Centre.

Accidents and incidents

Notes

  1. Passenger, freight and mail volumes include both domestic and international, transit, arriving and departing counterparts.
  2. Number of movements represents total aircraft takeoffs and landings during the year.

References

External links

Media related to Newcastle Airport at Wikimedia Commons

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