Newcastle Airport
Newcastle Airport is the 11th largest airport in the United Kingdom. Its IATA airport code is NCL and its ICAO airport code is EGNT.Newcastle Airport is owned by 7 local authorities (51%) and Copenhagen Airport (49%). There were 3,408,000 passenger movements in 2001, 3,387,00 in 2002 and 3,903,000 in 2003. The airport is expecting to handle 5 million passengers per year by 2005.
Newcastle Airport offers services to the following destinations (at May 2004):
Domestic
- Aberdeen (Eastern Airways)
- Belfast (Flybe and Easyjet)
- Birmingham (Eastern Airways)
- Bristol (Easyjet)
- Cardiff (Air Wales)
- Isle of Man (Eastern Airways)
- Jersey (Flybe)
- London (British Airways and Easyjet)
- Plymouth (Air Wales)
- Southampton (Eastern Airways)
- Alicante, Spain (Easyjet)
- Amsterdam, Netherlands (KLM)
- Barcelona, Spain (Easyjet)
- Berlin, Germany (Easyjet)
- Brussels, Belgium (SN Brussels Airlines)
- Dublin, Ireland (Ryanair)
- Hanover, Germany (Hapag Lloyd Express)
- Málaga, Spain {Easyjet)
- Nice, France (Easyjet)
- Paris, France (Air France and Easyjet)
- Prague, Czech Republic (Easyjet)
- Palma (Easyjet and Air Scotland)
- Stavanger, Norway (Wideroe Flyvelskap)
Newcastle Airport is connected to Newcastle and Sunderland city centres by the Tyne and Wear Metro service.
The main handling agents at the airport are Groundstar and Servisair/Globeground.