Bristol Airport Information

Bristol International Airport is the commercial airport serving the city of Bristol and much of the Southwest of England and Wales. Bristol Airport has 1 runway and one terminal serving 14 airlines and approximately 5 million passengers a year (5.75 million in 2006). Scheduled and charter airlines fly to more than 100 destinations in the UK and Ireland, Europe, North Africa and America.
The new terminal building was built in April 1999 and opened in March 2000. In 2000, passenger numbers exceeded two million for the first time.
The airport was bought by Macquarie Bank and Cintra in January 2001 for £198m. Passenger numbers passed through 3 million in 2002, largely due to the arrival of the low-cost carrier Go Fly. Continued expansion by easyJet led to another increase in passengers — to 3.8 million. In May 2005, Continental Airlines introduced direct flights from Bristol to Newark with Boeing 757-200 aircraft. In 2006 the airport handled more than 84,000 aircraft movements and 5.75 million passengers.