Bournemouth Airport
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Bournemouth Airport (IATA: BOH, ICAO: EGHH; engl. Bournemouth Airport, formerly Hurn Airport ) is the international airport of Bournemouth in southern England.
History
The airport was used as a military airfield RAF Hurn of the Royal Air Force on 1 August 1941. A civilian use took place in 1944.
The airline British Overseas Airways Corporation ( BOAC ) transferred in November 1944 her base for intercontinental flights from Bristol to Hurn and used the airport in this capacity until her move to London Heathrow in 1948. The British aircraft manufacturer Vickers - Armstrongs (1960 changed its name to British aircraft Corporation ) took over the deserted hangar BOAC in 1951 and produced in the halls aircraft of the type Vickers Varsity and Vickers Viscount.
From the early 1960s until the closure of the production line in 1984 on the spot jet aircraft of the type BAC One-Eleven (BAC 1-11) were built and maintained.
In 1969 the name was officially changed Hurn Airport Bournemouth Airport. In the following years Bournemouth has been used mainly as a regional airport and a starting point for flights to the Channel Islands. The production of the British Aircraft Corporation and the settlement of other companies, made for additional civilian and military flight operations.
The inclusion of regular charter flights to the Mediterranean took place in 1993 and resulted in the name change to Bournemouth International Airport. Based in Bournemouth airline European Aviation Air Charter offered the end of 2002 the first flights to the USA. These were discontinued after a few weeks, because the machines used a Boeing 747 due to the relatively short runway could not start with a full take-off weight, thus an economic operations was not possible.
Since 2005, the airport is increasingly served by so-called low cost airlines, notably Ryanair, Thomson Airways and easyJet. The Manchester Airports Group, which is the operator of the airport since 2001, began in 2007 with an extensive expansion program, under which created more parking areas and the terminal and apron were modernized.
In mid-2009, the airport received approval for landings under adverse weather conditions CAT III. For this purpose, an instrument landing system (ILS ) of the Thales Group has been installed.
Location and Transport
Bournemouth Airport is located in the county of Dorset on the south coast, about a mile west of the small village of Hurn, which gave its original name the airport. The city of Bournemouth is about eight kilometers away and can be reached via the developed multitrack highway A338. After an hour Bournemouth circulating bus service is offered.
Airlines and destinations
Bournemouth has almost exclusively on seasonal connections to European holiday destinations, including, for example, Alicante, Malta, Faro and Tenerife. The largest local supplier here are Ryanair and Thomson Airways.
The closest major airport, from the more regional and European cities destinations are served, which is about 40 km east from Southampton airport. Furthermore, there is about 120 km north-east of London Heathrow and Gatwick airports.