Belfast International Airport Belfast/Aldergrove Airport |
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Airport type | Public | ||||||||||||||
Owner | ADC & HAS. | ||||||||||||||
Operator | Belfast International Airport Ltd. | ||||||||||||||
Serves | Belfast, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||
Location |
Aldergrove, County Antrim, Northern Ireland |
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Elevation AMSL | 268 ft / 82 m | ||||||||||||||
Coordinates | 54°39′27″N 006°12′57″W / 54.65750°N 6.21583°WCoordinates: 54°39′27″N 006°12′57″W / 54.65750°N 6.21583°W | ||||||||||||||
Website | www.belfastairport.com | ||||||||||||||
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Location in Northern Ireland | |||||||||||||||
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Statistics (2015) | |||||||||||||||
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Passengers | 4,391,307 |
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Passenger change 14-15 | 8.9% |
Aircraft Movements | 52,246 |
Movements change 14-15 | 2.5 |
Belfast International Airport (IATA: BFS, ICAO: EGAA) is an airport 11.5 NM (21.3 km; 13.2 mi) northwest of Belfast in Northern Ireland. It was formerly known and is still referred to as Aldergrove Airport, after the nearby village of Aldergrove, which lies immediately to the west. Nearly 4.4 million passengers travelled through the airport in 2015, a 9% increase compared with 2014. Belfast International is the busiest airport in Northern Ireland and the second busiest airport on the island of Ireland in terms of passenger numbers after Dublin Airport and is followed by Belfast-City, Cork and Shannon.
Belfast International has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P798) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction. The airfield was previously shared with the Royal Air Force base RAF Aldergrove, which closed in 2008; the base is now known as Joint Helicopter Command Flying Station, Aldergrove and both runways are now owned by the airport. The airport is owned by ADC & HAS, the same company which owns , Orlando Sanford International Airport, Daniel Oduber Quirós International Airport, Mariscal Sucre International Airport and Juan Santamaría International Airport.