Bristol Airport

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Bristol Airport (IATA: BRS, ICAO: EGGD; engl Bristol Airport. ) Is the international airport of Bristol in southwest England. With 5.7 million passengers in 2010, he is the ninth busiest airport in the United Kingdom.

History

1929 decided a flying club from Filton airfield a farm in Whitechurch, near Bristol to acquire in order to build an airfield there. 1930 Bristol Airport was inaugurated by Prince George and at the time was the third airfield in England. In the first year of operation, over 900 passengers took the airfield and in 1940 already more than 4000 passengers.

During the Second World War, Bristol was the only civilian airport in the United Kingdom in operation and took on all passenger flights.

Since the airfield a longer airstrip for the new aircraft needed, but was surrounded by residential areas, it was decided a military facility of the Royal Air Force near Redhill, its present location, expand the military airfield RAF Lulsgate Bottom. Even after the opening of the new airfield in 1957 by Princess Marina, the old airfield in Whitechurch was used.

In 1963 the runway was extended and in 1965 extended to the passenger terminal building, due to strong passenger growth. Three years later, a new, 460 -square-foot passenger terminal was put into operation.

1974 sparked the most important airline locally, the Court Line, to the airport and suffered from the resulting decline in passengers.

Sold in 1996, the City Council of Bristol Airport and 1997 were 51% ownership interest in the hands of FirstGroup plc., While the city of Bristol holds the remaining 49%. Again a new terminal building was opened in March 2000. In the same year more than two million passengers were handled first. In January 2001, at Macquarie Bank and Cintra Airport for 198 million pounds.

In May 2005, Continental Airlines offered the first on direct flights from Bristol to Newark with New York, but these were adjusted again in the meantime.

On 5 January 2007, the airport had with the only airstrip problems, as their new asphalt pavement was wet and there were several incidents in which airplanes landing very late, or next to the runway came to a standstill. The runway was closed the following weekend for more than twelve hours. British Airways dash of safety concerns, temporarily, of its flights to and from Bristol. Since November 2007, Bristol is one of the bases of Ryanair.

Location and Transport

The airport is located about 11 km southwest of the city of Bristol on the A38 motorway and can be reached via the nearby M5 Motorway. From the airport there with the bus routes operated by First A1 and A2 a direct connection with stop at Bristol Temple Meads railway station in the city center of Bristol.

Terminal building

Bristol Airport has one terminal with 50 check- in desks and a total of 18 gates (1-4, 6-16 and 23-25), which are not yet equipped with passenger boarding bridges. In addition, there are the usual service and retail facilities.

Airlines and destinations

Bristol has connections to several national and European cities and holiday destinations, including Belfast, Manchester, Amsterdam, Lanzarote and Palma de Mallorca. Largest companies on site are easyJet and Ryanair. German -language goals are Hanover and Bremen with bmi regional, and Berlin- Schoenefeld with easyJet. Seasonal Salzburg and Innsbruck are served with easyJet. Long distances are not currently offered.

Lufthansa flew since March 30, 2008 Bristol three times a day directly from Frankfurt am Main to this compound was abandoned in early 2009 for economic reasons.