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Belfast International Airport is an airport located some 24 km (15 miles) west of Belfast in Northern Ireland. It is also known as Aldergrove, after the village of that name lying immediately to the west of the airport. Belfast International shares its runways with the Royal Air Force base RAF Aldergrove, which otherwise has its own facilites.
Serving over 3.7 million passengers a year, Belfast International Airport is the principal gateway to north of Ireland.
It is the closest all-weather airport in Europe to the USA, and is ideally located for the rapid turnaround and repositioning of the transatlantic flights.
The airport operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and is not subject to noise abatement procedures, significant environmental constraints or airspace limitations.
Most techically advanced airport in Ireland - Two long runways with ILS Cat 111b equipment, offer wide-body capacity.
Fifth largest regional air cargo centre in the UK.
Full range of warehouse and distribution centre.
Extensive ancillary services on site including executive air charter, air taxi, air ambulance, helicopter training and hire.
Belfast City Airport is an airport in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The airport is a single runway operation, situated only 2 miles from the city centre. It shares the site with the Short Brothers/Bombardier aircraft manufacturing facility. It began commercial operations in 1983.
The airport handled 1.2 million passengers in 2003, 3.5% more than the previous year. A subsequent program of building and refurbishment has further increased its passenger and plane capacities. Passenger numbers in 2004 were over 2 million.
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