Leeds Bradford International Airport

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Leeds Bradford International Airport ( IATA: LBA, ICAO: EGNM ) is an international airport between the two major British cities Bradford and Leeds. He has around three million passengers a year, the sixteenth largest airport in the country.

History

The origins of the airport are in the year 1931, when it club and training flights were here under the former name Yeadon Aerodrome. In 1935 took place the first scheduled flights. During the Second World War, the Royal Air Force took advantage of the system under the name RAF Yeadon especially as a flight test center of the machines produced at a factory of the company Avro on the edge of the airfield. Besides their own patterns Lancaster, Anson, York and Lincoln also Bristol Blenheim here were produced.

Airlines and destinations

Leeds Bradford is mainly used by low cost airlines and charter airlines. Largest Airlines on site, which is home Jet2.com and Ryanair, which maintains a base here. While bmi and Flybe offer some intra British cities compounds, Pakistan International Airlines operates the only existing long-haul flights through to Islamabad. Jet2 flies to Germany to Berlin -Brandenburg and Dusseldorf, as well as to Weeze Ryanair.