Jersey Airport

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Jersey Airport is located in the parish of Saint Peter on the island of Jersey, one of the British Crown dependencies in the Channel Islands.

Contents

1 History
2 Terminal
3 Airlines and Destinations
4 External links

History

Air service to Jersey before 1937 consisted of biplane airliners and some seaplanes landing on the beach at St. Aubin's Bay. Jersey Airways and Imperial Airways were among those who operated to the island before the war, but conditions were difficult as timetables were governed by tides. It was also difficult to prevent members of the public from walking across the landing area, and any aircraft which had mechanical problems had to be dragged up the slipways until the tide receded.

The States of Jersey decided to build an airport which opened in 1937 with four grass runways, the longest of 2940 feet (896 metres) with a concrete centreline. Concrete taxiways were added during the World War II occupation by the Luftwaffe — they also built hangars, one of which is still in existence. A 4,200 feet (1,280 metre) tarmac runway was opened in 1952 and the grass strips were closed. A feature of the airport in the 1950s was the traffic control system — traffic-lights were in place to prevent vehicles using the road from Les Quennevais to the Airport when planes were being moved to or from the hangar used by B.E.A.

The runway was lengthened several times over the years, reaching its current length in 1976.

Terminal

The 1937 terminal was designed with the control tower between the arrivals and departures areas. The terminal was extended in 1976 and again in 1997.

Airlines and Destinations

Aer Lingus (Dublin)
Air Southwest (Plymouth, Bristol)
Air Wales (Cardiff)
Atlantic Express (London-Stansted)
Aurigny Air Services (Guernsey)
bmi (Leeds/Bradford)
* bmibaby (Cardiff, Durham-Tees Valley, Manchester (UK), Nottingham/East Midlands)
British Airways (London-Gatwick)
* BA Connect (Manchester (UK))
Flybe (Birmingham (UK), Bristol, Exeter, Guernsey, London-Gatwick, Norwich, Southampton)
Blue Islands (Alderney, Bournemouth, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Saint-Brieuc Armor)
Grupo SATA (Funchal, Geneva, Zurich)
Thomsonfly (Cardiff, Coventry, Doncaster/Sheffield, Nottingham/East Midlands)
VLM (London-City)

Some airlines offer service between other destinations and Jersey with an intermediate stop at Guernsey.

Rockhopper have made Jersey Airport their operational base as of November 2005.

External links

Airports of the United Kingdom
: City \| Gatwick \| Heathrow \| Luton \| Stansted \| Southend
: Birmingham \| Blackpool \| Bournemouth \| Bristol \| Doncaster-Sheffield \| Durham Tees Valley \| Exeter \| Leeds-Bradford \| Liverpool \| Manchester \| Newcastle \| Norwich \| Nottingham East Midlands \| Southampton Coventry \| Humberside \| Land's End \| Newquay \| Plymouth City \| St. Mary's
: Aberdeen \| Edinburgh \| Glasgow International \| Glasgow Prestwick \| Inverness Barra \| Benbecula \| Campbeltown \| Dundee \| Fair Isle \| Islay \| Kirkwall \| Lerwick \| Stornoway \| Sumburgh \| Tiree \| Westray \| Wick
: Cardiff
: Belfast City \| Belfast International \| City of Derry
Crown Dependencies: Alderney \| Guernsey \| Isle of Man \| Jersey
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