Blackpool Airport

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Blackpool (Squires Gate) Airport is a small international airport, 5 km south of Blackpool, Lancashire in north west England. The airport is owned and operated by City Hopper Airports Limited, who also own Wolverhampton Airport and Biella Airport in Italy.

Several scheduled services operate from the airport, as well as chartered holiday flights in summer months. Helicopter operations serve the north west England’s offshore gas facilities.

History

The airport has been in operation since 1909, when flying schools operated from the Squires Gate airfield. During World War II, Vickers operated an aircraft production facility, producing Wellington bombers. By 1949, the airfield was placed in the hands of the Ministry of Aviation and renamed Blackpool Airport.

Since then the airport has been continuously expanding, accommodating helicopter operations for British Gas, and attracting scheduled flights from budget airline, Ryanair and also small scheduled services to the Isle of Man.

In 2005, Jet2.com became the first major low cost airline to base an aircraft at Blackpool Airport. This created around 50 new jobs and has helped Blackpool Airport boost passenger numbers. They now serve eight destinations from this airport; 5 in Spain and the Canaries (Palma de Mallorca, Alicante, Murcia, Tenerife, Málaga. They also offer a domestic service to Belfast and a 5 times weekly flight to Amsterdam. Services to Faro and Prague have also been added to the network.

for Blackpool Airport at grid reference SD318315

Airlines and Destinations

• British NorthWest Airlines (Belfast-City, Isle of Man)
• Jet2.com (Alicante, Amsterdam, Belfast-International, Faro, Majorca, Málaga [begins March 2007], Murcia, Palma, Prague [begins 29 October], Tenerife)
• Manx2 (Isle of Man [begins 15 July])
• Monarch Airlines (Malaga)
• Ryanair (Dublin, Girona, London-Stansted)

Transport

• M55 Junction 4 is nearby
• Squires Gate railway station is nearby for trains to Blackpool South and Preston
• Local bus operator Blackpool Transport operates a open top city sightseeing bus along the promenade into Blackpool town centre
• Local bus routes 5, 7 and 11 stop near the airport to take passengers to Blackpool town centre and beyond.
• Tram services are availble from the nearby Starr Gate tram stop. The trams take passengers along the promanade past Blackpool Pleasure Beach, Central pier and Blackpool Tower.

External link

• [Blackpool International Airport]

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