George Best Belfast City Airport

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The George Best Belfast City Airport is named after the Belfast International Airport, the smaller and more urban of the two civil airports of Northern Ireland's capital Belfast. The airport is located about five kilometers east of the city center on the large port area. The company Bombardier produced there.

History

During the Second World War, the Coastal Command of the Royal Air Force took advantage of the system under the name RAF Nutts Corner.

On 22 May 2006, renamed Belfast City Airport, George Best Belfast City Airport. Belfast is honoring the late 2005 world-class football player George Best, who would have celebrated that day his 60th birthday.

Airlines and destinations

The George Best Belfast City Airport has numerous connections within the UK as well as holiday destinations in Spain. Largest companies on site is Flybe, which operates a base here and flies, for example, to London, Birmingham, Cardiff, Manchester and Southampton. Seasonal be approached within of charter flights to ski resorts with Memmingen and Salzburg directly also German-speaking goals. bmibaby closed its base in Belfast in June 2012 after less than a year. As currently the only other airlines flying from Belfast City Airport from British Airways to London Heathrow and Manx2 to the Isle of Man.