Bournemouth Airport next summer

Located just six miles from Bournemouth pier, and once called Hurn, Bournemouth Airport is to get a second based Ryanair aircraft for next summer, making a total of 18 routes and 120 weekly flights for the airline.  

Edinburgh, Carcassonne (Toulouse) and Venice are added, the Scottish route a beneficiary of the government’s reduction by 50% of Air Passenger Duty (APD) next April.  Ryanair is also registered as a British airline and can fly domestic routes unlike Aer Lingus (see Belfast City to Heathrow? in this month’s TNU).

The main operator at Bournemouth is Tui with mostly seasonal flights to Antalya, Dalaman, Gran Canaria, Heraklion, Ibiza, Kefalonia, Kerkyra, Lanzarote, Menorca, Palma de Mallorca, Paphos, Rhodes, Tenerife-South and Zakynthos.

Bournemouth Airport is owned by Sir Peter Rigby’s Regional & City Airports group, which also has Coventry, Exeter and Norwich Airports.  To some extent it competes with Southampton, 30 miles of sparsely populated countryside to the east, but with a far longer runway at 2271m compared to 1723m, restricting the operation in terms of aircraft.

Way back in 2007/2008 Bournemouth moved just over one million passengers but in recent times its best figure was for 2019 at 800,000.  

The closure of the British Aerospace site in 1984 ended Bournemouth's role as a significant player in the aircraft manufacturing industry. The former aircraft factory now forms one of Dorset's largest industrial sites, including a base for Cobham Plc.

www.bournemouthairport.com

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