Leeds Bradford International Airport
- Organisation Type:
- Airport
- IATA:
- LBA
- Website:
- http://www.leedsbradfordairport.co.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 (0) 7793 709188
- Country:
- United Kingdom
Status update: “has updated their profile”
Facts (Overview)
Leeds Bradford (LBA) is the international gateway airport for Yorkshire, the largest region in the UK.
Yorkshire has a population of 5.6m (10% of UK's population) which is larger than the population of Scotland or Norway.
LBA offers 72 destinations across 22 countries serving Leeds and Bradford, two of the fastest growing cities in the UK and Europe.
17 new international routes have been introduced at LBA in 2010/11 and a further 5 already announced for 2012.
LBA was the fastest growing UK airport in 2010/11 with growth in excess of 10%.
The 3 millionth passenger will fly from LBA in early 2012.
In 2012 an £11m terminal investment will deliver a contemporary look and feel departure lounge (increased in size by 65%), enlarged security zone (increased in size by 40% and delivering upto 6 channels), a new covered walkway to aircraft stands, enlarged boarding gate zones, a wider choice of retail, food and bar alongside an extended duty free store, providing LBA with ‘best in class' regional airport facilities.
Figures
- Number of Terminals:
- 1
- Urban population:
- 2.9m Leeds City Region
- Total Catchment Population:
- 5.6m Yorkshire
- Number of Runways:
- 1
- Length of main runway (m):
- 2250M
- Operational Opening Hours:
- 24 Hours
- Ownership:
- Bridgepoint
- Number of Direct Destinations:
- 72
- List of Top 5 airlines:
- Jet2.com, Ryanair, Flybe, Bmi, easyJet
- Passenger Numbers (mppa):
- 2.95m
- Cargo Tonnes (p.a.):
- Number of Serving Airlines:
- 10
- Aircraft Parking Stands:
- 22 Accommodating up to B777
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Contacts
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Tony Hallwood
Commercial and Aviation Development Director
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Events
NEW RYANAIR BASE AT LBA
2 B737-800 SERVING 14 ROUTES WILL COMMENCE OPERATIONS IN MARCH 2010
Tuesday, 11th August, 2009
Ryanair ANNOUNCES 34th BASE AT LEEDS BRADFORD
2 aircraft, 17 routes and 1M passengerS P.A.
1MILLION £5 SEATS FOR TRAVEL OCT & NOV
Ryanair, the World's favourite airline, today (11th August) announced it would open its 34th base at Leeds Bradford in March 2010 with two based aircraft and 14 new routes (17 in total) being launched. Ryanair will offer 63 weekly return flights to/from Leeds Bradford in an investment worth over $140 million in the airport.
Ryanair's 14 new routes from Leeds Bradford to Carcassonne, Faro, Ibiza, Knock, Krakow, Limoges, Malaga, Malta, Montpellier, Murcia, Nantes, Palma, Pisa and Venice Treviso will increase Ryanair's traffic at Leeds Bradford to 1 million passengers p.a. which will create and sustain 1,000 well paid local jobs in Yorkshire.
Ryanair celebrated its new Leeds Bradford base, two new aircraft, 17 routes and 1million passengers by releasing 1 million £5 seats for travel across its European network for travel in October and November which are available for booking on www.ryanair.com until midnight Thursday (13th July).
In Leeds Bradford today, Ryanair's Michael O'Leary said:
"Ryanair is delighted to announce Leeds Bradford as our 34th base and our 11th UK base airport. These 14 new routes from Leeds Bradford go on sale tomorrow. With a total of 17 low fare routes from Leeds Bradford next summer passengers can beat the recession by choosing Ryanair's guaranteed lowest fares and no fuel surcharges to 17 exciting destinations all over Europe including France, Italy and Spain among others. Ryanair's 1 million passengers will create and sustain 1,000 jobs locally at Leeds Bradford Airport."
3 Existing Routes
From
Alicante£5
Barcelona (Girona)£5
Dublin£5
14 New Routes
From
Carcassonne£10
Malta£10
Faro£10
Montpellier£10
Ibiza£10
Murcia£10
Knock£10
Nantes£10
Krakow£10
Palma£10
Limoges£10
Pisa£10
Malaga£10
Venice Treviso£10
John Parkin, LBIA Chief Executive, said:
"This is a great vote of confidence in the potential of both the airport and our region from Europe's largest airline. Today's announcement makes us an exception in the sector and will help create much needed jobs. It shows Ryanair shares our confidence in the tremendous opportunity for strong market growth at the airport. Significantly it follows recent planning approval for the terminal development to deliver best in class facilities and build upon existing routes."
- Posted 09/09/2009
- Upcoming Key Routes
- 5
- Underserved Key Routes
- 7
- Unserved Key Routes
- 34
