Leeds Bradford International Airport

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.



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