Leeds Bradford International Airport: Featured Airport

Overview

About Leeds Bradford International Airport (LBA)

Leeds Bradford (LBA) is the international gateway airport for Yorkshire, the largest region in the UK.

Yorkshire has a population of 5.6m (10% of UK's population) which is larger than the population of Scotland or Norway.

LBA offers 76 destinations across 24 countries serving Leeds and Bradford, two of the fastest growing cities in the UK and Europe.

10 new international routes have been introduced at LBA in 2010 and a further 6 are planned for winter 2010/11

LBA is one of the fastest growing UK airports and will deliver 10% growth in 2010/11.

Over 3 million passengers will fly from LBA in 2011.

A new £28m terminal development is planned for 2012 delivering a new departure lounge and doubling the size of the security zone providing LBA with 'best in class' regional airport facilities.

CATCHMENT AREA:

LBA Catchment Area

• 2.9m people live in the Leeds City Region, a maximum of 30 minutes from LBA.

• 5.9m people live within a 60 minute drive time of LBA.

• Leeds -is the 4^th largest city in the UK and is the 2^nd largest metropolitan region outside of London.

• LBA is located only 10km from the city and business centres of both Leeds and Bradford.

• 10 major cities and towns are within 25 miles of LBA;

• Leeds 761k; Bradford 495k; Huddersfield 389k; Wakefield 316k; Barnsley 218k, Halifax 193k, York 182k, Harrogate 151k, Selby 78k and Skipton 54k.

• Leeds is the 23^rd largest city in Europe.

• LBA located in heart of Yorkshire's affluent 'Golden Triangle' - York, Harrogate and Leeds.

MARKET INFO:

Trade

• Leeds is one of Europe's top 30 cities for business.

• Leeds is the UK's most important financial and legal centre outside of London.

• 100k businesses are located in Leeds City Region.

• £7 billion development / inward investment projects planned for the Leeds City region over the next 5 years.

• 7 universities located in LBA catchment; 150 k students, second largest concentration in UK.

• Yorkshire is the fastest growing UK region for inbound tourism and by 2011, over 1.5 million overseas visitors will be visiting Leeds, York, Harrogate, Bradford and the Yorkshire Dales.

• Leeds presently welcomes 350 k overseas visitors and York over 250 k.

• Top 5 inbound tourism markets to Yorkshire: USA, France, Germany, France, and Scandinavia.

• Key regional trading partners for West Yorkshire are the US and Germany.

• 6 of North America's top businesses have a UK head office based in Yorkshire.

NETWORK:

• LBA has one of the fastest growing route networks in the UK.

• 65 international destinations are now on offer across 24 countries.

• 12 domestic destinations served across UK.

• 10 major airline brands serving full service, low cost and charter including; Jet2, Ryanair, Flybe, KLM and PIA.

• LBA will deliver 3 million passengers in 2011.

• By 2015, 5million passengers will fly from LBA to over 100 worldwide destinations.

• LBA offers direct services to 7 of Yorkshire's Top 10 exporting destinations. But at present LBA has no services to the USA, Gulf, Canada and Scandinavia despite significant business demand.

FACILITIES:

• Contemporary new executive lounge opened July 2010 called the Premier Lounge.

• Redesign of security zone to improve passenger throughput completed in April 2010.

• New dedicated fast track through security available for business passengers

• Enhanced bus links to Leeds, Bradford and Harrogate introduced.

• New rapid drop off/pick up zone introduced in 2009, 70 meters from the terminal entrance.

• 1000 more parking spaces introduced in 2010.

• Major investment in upgrading of retail, food and beverage facilities for summer 2010 completed.

• Runway 14/32 - 2250meters.

• 24 stands, 7 of which are walk on / walk off.

• 2 air bridges.

UNSERVED ROUTES/KEY MARKET OPPORTUNITIES:

Top 12 unserved routes from LBA are;

• Orlando / Florida

• New York / US

• Dubai / Gulf

• Toronto

• Frankfurt

• Madrid

• Zurich

• Copenhagen

• Oslo

Increased business connectivity to the Gulf, SE Asia, China and Japan required for increasing business demand.

Strong ethnic traffic support in West Yorkshire for services to the Gulf, India and Pakistan. PIA has successfully operated twice weekly to Islamabad since June 2008.

West Yorkshire has one of UK's largest Indian (90k) and Pakistani (160k) communities in the UK living within 20 km of LBA.

Leeds is the largest UK city without direct service to US.

The US is West Yorkshire's main trading partner and LBA has strong business and leisure demand for a New York service and onward connectivity to satisfy a daily transatlantic B757 service.

PERSONNEL:

Tony Hallwood

Leeds Bradford International Airport

Commercial and Aviation Development Director

CONTACT:

Mobile; +44 (0) 7793 709188

Office; +44 (0) 113 391 3300

email: [email protected]

Website; leedsbradfordairport.co.uk

(New website planned for autumn 2010)

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