Belfast International Airport

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Belfast International Airport ( IATA: BFS, ICAO: EGAA, also Aldergrove Airport ) is before the Belfast City Airport is the larger of the two international airports of Northern Ireland's capital Belfast. The armed forces of the United Kingdom use the airport as a military airfield and lead him under the name of Joint Helicopter Command Flying Station Aldergrove, short JHC Flying Station Aldergrove.

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History

  • November 1917: The Aldergrove Aerodrome is the training airfield of the Royal Flying Corps during the First World War.
  • May 1925: The airport is location of the Special Reserve unit 502
  • May 31, 1931: First civilian flight to Northern Ireland from Glasgow
  • October 28, 1963: Reopening after the war and inauguration of the terminal by the Queen Mother

Location and Transport

Belfast International Airport is located about 25 km west of downtown Belfast. The line 300 of Ulsterbus runs about every ten minutes from the station Europe Central Station in about 40 minutes to the airport.

Military use

After deduction of the Royal Air Force of the so far as Royal Air Force Station Aldergrove (short RAF Aldergrove ) known base in September 2009 nurmehr machines of the Army Air Corps stationed here, which make up the 5th Regiment.

Civil use

Airlines and destinations

Belfast International Airport has connections to several destinations within the UK as well as a few European cities and many seasonal and holiday destinations. Be operated, for example, Edinburgh, Paris, Antalya, Lanzarote and Ibiza. Currently the only long-haul flight offers to United Airlines to Newark.

Freight

Belfast International Airport is one of the most important regional air cargo airports in the UK and Northern Ireland with an envelope of 50,000 tonnes of cargo in 2004. Due to Northern Ireland's geographic isolation of the United Kingdom and the European continent superior air freight services are vital. Belfast International Airport is so, inter alia, transhipment point for the daily mail traffic of Royal Mail.

Others

Aldergrove is now the only remaining flying station of the British forces in Northern Ireland.

RAF Ballykelly

About 75 km north- west of Aldergrove was formerly the RAF Station Ballykelly. These existed from 1941 bs 1971, when the last Avro Shackleton maritime patrol aircraft left the square. The decor was henceforth used under the name of Shackleton Barracks until 2008 by the British Army. In these years, Ballykelly continued to be used as a tank stopover stationed in RAF Aldergrove helicopter and liaison aircraft of the Army.

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