Southampton Airport
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- This airport is located in the United Kingdom, for the airport in Canada, see Southampton Airport (Ontario)
In 1936 the first test flights of the Supermarine Spitfire were conducted at the airport, an event commemorated in 2004 with the erection of a near-full size sculpture of a Mk V Spitfire at the road entrance.
On March 5th, 2006 at 16:30 GMT, five restored Spitfires took off from Southampton Airport to commemorate the seventieth anniversary of the first flight the of the Spitfire at the precise same time as the test flights in 1936.
There are [plans], [supported] by the local council, to rename the airport after R. J. Mitchell, designer of the Spitfire. However, the choice whether to rename the airport lies with BAA.
Airlines and destinations
- Aer Arann (Cork)
- Air France (Paris-Charles De Gaulle)
- Air Scotland (Girona)
- Aurigny Air Services (Alderney)
- British Airways
- * BA Connect (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Manchester (UK))
- bmi (Amsterdam)
- Eastern Airways (Aberdeen, Brussels, Leeds/Bradford, Newcastle, Isle of Man)
- Flybe (Alicante, Amsterdam, Angers, Avignon, Belfast City, Bergerac, Berne, Bordeaux, Brest, Chambéry, Cherbourg, Dublin, Dusseldorf, Edinburgh, Faro, Geneva, Glasgow, Guernsey, Hanover, Jersey, La Rochelle, Leeds/Bradford, Limoges, Liverpool, Málaga, Manchester (UK), Murcia, Newcastle, Palma, Perpignan, Rennes, Salzburg)
- Isles of Scilly Skybus (Isles of Scilly, Newquay)
- Scot Airways (Amsterdam)
Ground Transportation
Southampton Airport is served by a dedicated mainline railway station, Southampton Airport (Parkway), on the South Western Main Line from London Waterloo and Winchester to Southampton, Bournemouth and Weymouth, with a fast and frequent service to those places. It has the closest mainline railway station to a terminal building in the UK.The airport is also located close to the junction between the M3 motorway and M27 motorway, giving easy road access to Southampton, Winchester, Bournemouth, Portsmouth and places between.
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