Talk:Bournemouth Airport

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Ryanair were using the airport before 2005, and must have been there at least as long ago as 1996. Joe D (t) 04:30, 8 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] New Passenger terminal

Is Bournemouth every going to get a new passenger terminal espically with the rapid growth of the number of passengers flying from bmth and with only 4 gates, which are always used during busy periods.

Full details of the new terminal are contained in the airports 'master plan', which you can download from the airports website.

[edit] Easyjet Base

It is rumoured that Easyjet are planning on making Easyjet a base next april flying to Paris, Edinbourough, Nice and Geneva. they would base 2 A319's there.

[edit] Airport's history

The airport's runway's were actually built by the RAF and USAF during the second world war to act as a forward base to deploy aircraft leading up to D-Day. The airport was handed over to civil authorities after world war two and acted as the main airport for London for about eight months after the war until Heathrow was also handed over to civil use. Passengers have in fact been using the airport since 1945, numbers being fairly low through the 50's, 60's, 70's and 80's. Passenger numbers started to slowly increase in the 90's. Ryanair started operating from the airport in may 1996 when it launched a daily service to Dublin. In 1996 the local authorities , who had controlled the airport since end of world war two, sold it to National Express group (who also owned East Midlands airport). It was then that the main runway was extended to enable larger jets to operate. The airport was sold on to Manchester Airport Group in 2002( or possibly 2001) who still own it. Since then passenger flights have increased so that now approximately 1.1 million people use the airport annually. Most of these passengers use Thomsonfly, Ryanair, Easyjet and a few other charter and scheduled services.