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
Flybe announces new business friendly flight to London from Leeds Bradford
New service at LBA
Flybe, Europe's largest regional airline and the UK's number one domestic carrier, has now put on sale its complete new early 2010 summer schedule that features a total 130 flights a week from Leeds Bradford including services to Aberdeen, Belfast City, Exeter and Southampton. These include the 36 flights to and from the airport each week to London Gatwick announced last month, key amongst which is its convenient new early morning departure.
Early sales on Flybe's popular London Gatwick service for next summer have already proved brisk particularly from those business travellers wanting to take full advantage of early-bird low prices on the new early morning departure from Leeds Bradford (dep 0700 arr LGW 0815) and the later evening departure from London Gatwick (dep 1955 arr Leeds 2105).
All early summer services from Leeds Bradford are all available for booking now at www.flybe.com with one way fares from £25.99 including taxes and airport charges. Tickets are valid for travel between 28th March and 30th June 2010.
Mike Rutter, Flybe's Chief Commercial Officer, comments: "Releasing these final additional flights today gives travellers the opportunity to plan cost effective travel for next summer as early as possible. The travel period currently available also includes the Easter holiday and Bank Holidays, which is great news for families looking for a late spring break or long weekend post exams!
Comments Tony Hallwood, Commercial and Aviation Development Director at Leeds Bradford International Airport: "The addition of Flybe's 0700 flight to London Gatwick show their continued commitment to serving the region and keeping the business community on the move. An early morning departure from LBA is crucial for our corporate customers who need to be in central London for 9am to attend meetings.
In addition, Flybe's new summer flight schedule to a selection of cities in the UK is frequent, affordable and convenient for both leisure and business customers."
Mr Rutter adds: "Our early summer selection of seats feature some of our most popular leisure and business destinations so we'd urge travellers to book early so they don't miss out on the lowest fares possible."
ENDS
For further press information please contact the LBIA communications team on 07500 225 423
- Posted 23/09/2009
- Upcoming Key Routes
- 5
- Underserved Key Routes
- 7
- Unserved Key Routes
- 34
