Newquay Cornwall Airport

Newquay Cornwall Airport
Characteristics
ICAO code	EGHQ
IATA code	NQY
Coordinates	50 ° 26 '26 "  N , 4 ° 59' 44"  W Coordinates: 50 ° 26 '26 "  N , 4 ° 59' 44"  W.
Height above MSL	119 m (390  ft )
Transport links
Distance from the city center	6 km northeast of Newquay , United Kingdom
Street	2 km to the
Local transport	bus
Basic data
opening	1933 (civil 2008)
Terminals	1
Passengers	371,500 (2016)
Air freight	2 t (2016)
Flight movements	30,417 (2016)
Start-and runway
12/30	2745 m of asphalt

The Newquay Cornwall Airport ( IATA : NQY , ICAO : EGHQ ) is a regional airport in Cornwall in southwest England and also the most important and largest in the region. It is located about 6.5 kilometers (4 miles) northeast of Newquay on Cornwall's north coast.

Until 2008 the airport was used for military purposes only under the name RAF St. Mawgan (ICAO: EGDG), but today the Royal Air Force only uses a peripheral area of ​​the site and regular military flight operations no longer take place.

A special feature of the airport was an “Airport Development Fee” of five GBP, which departing passengers had to purchase in addition to the flight ticket in order to pass the security check. This has not been collected since April 2016 and is believed to have contributed to Ryanair flying to the airport.

history

The origins of the airport near Newquay go back to 1933, when a civilian airfield started operations here.

RAF St Mawgan

Shackleton, RAF St. Mawgan, 2004

When the Second World War broke out , the airfield was requiered for the military. The Royal Air Force Station St Mawgan (short RAF St Mawgan , until February 1943 referred to as RAF Trebelzue ) was initially a satellite airfield of RAF St Eval and initially received two paved runways. In June 1943 the base was taken over by the United States Army Air Forces , which used it until shortly after the end of the war.

With the beginning of the Cold War , the station was reactivated by the RAF Coastal Command and became a base for maritime scouts of the Lancaster , Shackleton and from 1969 Nimrod types . The station was also the base for SAR helicopters.

With the end of the Cold War, RAF Kinloss became the Nimrod type base; only maintenance activities for this type of aircraft remained in St Mawgan. On December 1, 2008, RAF St Mawgan was closed as a military airfield, but a smaller part on the edge of the now civil airfield is still used for military purposes.

The Royal Navy operates several helicopters here for the Flag Officer Sea Training , which also includes the German Officer Sea Training of the German Navy.

Newquay Cornwall Airport

Due to the reduced military flight operations, the airport was already in civil use before the RAF St Mawgan closed. Monarch Airlines and Ryanair were among the airlines that already served the airport during the RAF days. A twenty percent local terminal expansion to handle a maximum of 450,000 passengers per year took place in 2006.

For some years now, Newquay Airport has also been increasingly used as an aircraft graveyard , where aircraft are parked during temporary shutdowns or are cannibalized and recycled.

Airlines and Destinations

Flybe flew as the main airline spot from Newquay to London-Gatwick , Manchester and seasonal and Edinburgh during Isles of Scilly Skybus , the Isles of Scilly binds. International destinations are Düsseldorf and Stuttgart , to which Eurowings flies seasonally . Since April 2016, Ryanair has been offering a flight from Frankfurt-Hahn twice a week .

The largest local airline until autumn 2011 was Air Southwest , which offered connections to several regional destinations such as Aberdeen , Glasgow , Manchester and Dublin . On July 28, 2011, the company had also relocated the routes it had previously operated from Plymouth Airport to Newquay Cornwall Airport, but at the end of September 2011 this base was also closed and all connections suspended.

Others

RAF St Mawgan was the RAF's last active flying station in Cornwall.

RAF St Eval

The RAF St Eval station existed from 1939 to 1959 just 3 km north of St. Mawgans. The airfield was under the RAF Fighter Command in the first years of the Second World War . In the years 1942/1943 the United States Army Air Forces used the space for almost a year. Then mainly squadrons of the RAF Coastal Command used the base until decommissioning, the last squadrons flew the Avro Shackleton .

Web links

• Official website of Newquay Cornwall Airport (English)
• RAF St. Mawgan (engl.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Passenger numbers at all airports in the United Kingdom. (PDF; 79 KB) In: caa.co.uk. Civil Aviation Authority , accessed May 13, 2017 .  
2. ↑ Freight figures from all UK airports. (PDF; 12 KB) In: caa.co.uk. Civil Aviation Authority , accessed May 13, 2017 .  
3. ↑ Aircraft movements at all UK airports. (PDF; 157 KB) In: caa.co.uk. Civil Aviation Authority , accessed May 13, 2017 .  
4. ^ [1] Cornwall Airport Newquay - New name, new routes and no development fee! (05/01/2016)
5. ^ [2] Frankfurt-Live - New flight connection from Frankfurt-Hahn to Cornwall April 4, 2016
6. ↑ plymouthairport.com ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ↑ bbc.co.uk - Air Southwest to cease operations at Plymouth and Newquay (English) July 14, 2011