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The ICAO codes for airports in the United Kingdom (and its Crown Dependencies) begin with the two letters "EG". RAF Mount Pleasant on the Falkland Islands also uses the "EG" code. Airport names in italics are listed in the UK Aeronautical Information Publication. [1] Airport names in bold have scheduled commercial airline service(s). Runway ...
For a complete list of UK airports, see List of airports in the United Kingdom and the British Crown Dependencies. The United Kingdom, an island country, is home to many of Europe's largest and busiest airports. London Heathrow, which handles over 79 million international passengers annually, is the largest airport in the UK.
Located in West Sussex, Gatwick map2 is the second-busiest airport in the United Kingdom, the eighth-busiest in Europe, and the second-busiest single-runway airport in the world. It handles flights to more destinations than any other UK airport [14] and is the main base of easyJet, [15] the UK's largest airline by number of passengers. [16]
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In many cases airport capacity is already fully used in meeting current demand. At Heathrow and Gatwick airports the runways are full for "… virtually the whole day". In 2003 the runway at Birmingham airport was expected to reach full capacity by 2009 at the latest, whilst terminal capacity at Edinburgh airport had reached its limit. [29]
Wikipedia categories named after airports in the United Kingdom (7 C) Pages in category "Airports in the United Kingdom" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total.
Manchester Airport (IATA: MAN, ICAO: EGCC) is an international airport in Ringway, Manchester, England, 7 miles (11 km) south-west of Manchester city centre. [1] [3] In 2022, it was the third busiest airport in the United Kingdom in terms of passengers (the busiest outside of London) and the 19th-busiest airport in Europe in 2023, with 28.1 million passengers served.