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LBA SUMMER 2024 UPDATE

• The £100 million investments works has started with builders now on site of the new Terminal building extension. Once construction is completed works will then switch to regenerating the existing terminal. The LBA #REGEN project expected to be completed by late 2025 or early 2026. These plans also Includes works to construct an additional 10x aircraft parking stands.
• Starting this summer LBA has been designated a Level 3 slot coordinated airport night time only (2300-0700) by the Department for Transport, At all other times the airport will remain a level 2.
• Works also continue with the installation of the new generation Leidos CT scanners at security which are expected to be competed by start of the busy summer season.
• With funding in place It is hoped that the final business case for the planned Parkway Rail Station on the Leeds to Harrogate line should be approved by WYCA early this year with a planning application submitted to Leeds City Council later this summer..

LBA is looking super busy this coming summer 2024 season with new routes and airlines set to appear. Meaning the 4+ million passenger figure should be easily passed for a 2nd consecutive year..

• Ryanair have added 2 brand new routes to Marrakesh & Bucharest starting in May, The low cost airline will operate its biggest ever schedule from LBA this summer with 26 routes and up to 108 weekly departures using 3x based aircraft. 1x Boeing 737-MAX-8200 & 2x Boeing 737-800's
• We have 2 new Turkish operators operating Boeing 737-MAX8 aircraft to Antalya. Sun Express will offer upto 3x weekly service & Southwind Airlines with a 1x weekly offering with tour operator Holiday Best.
• Aer Lingus Regional continues to grow by adding extra daily rotations on both its Dublin and Belfast City routes.
• Easyjet is increasing its Belfast Int'l route with up to 6x weekly flights.
• TUI have added a 4x weekly Palma departure on Sundays. TUI will operate up to 6x weekly w-legs into LBA this summer from Palma, Corfu & Dubrovnik.
• LBA's home-based operator Jet2 is a bit stagnant at the moment as they're currently limited to how much it can grow the operation due to lack of aircraft parking stand and the current terminal limitation's. But good news is that they have found room to introduce at least new route to Agadir late summer operating once weekly. The remaining 7x Boeing 737-300 aircraft fleet continues to be in operation at LBA this summer whilst an additional 10th Boeing 737-800 is being added to the base, but only 9 are required in daily operational use.

Aer Lingus Regional
Belfast City = 27x weekly
Dublin = 17x weekly

Aurigny
Guernsey = 2x weekly

Wizz Air
Gdansk = 2x weekly
Krakow = 2x weekly
Warsaw Chopin = 2x weekly
Bucharest = 2x weekly
Cluj-Napoca = 3x weekly

KLM
Amsterdam = 21x weekly

Easyjet
Belfast Int’l = 4-6x weekly

TUI Airways
Palma = 4x weekly
Dubrovnik = 1x weekly
Corfu = 1x weekly

Freebird Airlines
Dalaman = 2x weekly

Sun Express
Antalya = 3x weekly NEW

Southwind Airlines
Antalya = 1x weekly NEW

BH Air
Bourgas = 1x weekly

Ryanair
Zadar = 2x weekly
Limoges = 3x weekly
Paris Beauvais = 3x weekly
Perpignan = 2x weekly
Crete - Chania = 1x weekly
Dublin = 20x weekly
Marrakech = 2x weekly NEW
Riga = 2x weekly
Krakow = 5x weekly
Gdansk = 3x weekly
Poznan = 2x weekly
Warsaw Modlin = 2x weekly
Wroclaw = 2x weekly
Faro = 4x weekly
Porto = 2x weekly
Bratislava = 2x weekly
Bucharest = 3x weekly NEW
Alicante = 14x weekly
Girona = 5x weekly
Reus = 3x weekly
Fuerteventura = 2x weekly
Ibiza = 2x weekly
Arrecife = 2x weekly
Malaga = 7x weekly
Palma = 11x weekly
Tenerife South = 2x weekly

Jet2
Antalya = 7x weekly
Bodrum = 2x weekly
Dalaman = 7x weekly
Izmir = 2x weekly
Alicante = 17x weekly
Almeria = 1x weekly
Barcelona = 2x weekly
Girona = 2x weekly
Malaga = 14x weekly
Reus = 3x weekly
Ibiza = 10x weekly
Mahon = 5x weekly
Palma = 24x weekly
Arrecife = 7x weekly
Fuerteventura = 4x weekly
Las Palmas = 4x weekly
Tenerife South = 10x weekly
Faro = 14x weekly
Funchal = 1x weekly
Agadir - 1x Weekly NEW
Corfu = 4x weekly
Crete - Heraklion
Crete - Chania
Kefalonia = 4x weekly
Kos = 4x weekly
Rhodes = 4x weekly
Santorini = 1x weekly
Skiathos = 2x weekly
Thessaloniki = 1x weekly
Zakynthos = 3x weekly
Cyprus - Larnaca = 4x weekly
Cyprus - Paphos = 4x weekly
Naples = 2x weekly
Pisa = 1x weekly
Rome Fiumicino = 2x weekly
Catania = 1x weekly
Verona = 1x weekly
Prague = 2x weekly
Budapest = 2x weekly
Krakow = 2x weekly
Bourgas = 2x weekly
Dubrovnik = 3x weekly
Split = 2x weekly
Malta -= 2x weekly
Bergerac = 1x weekly
Nice = 2x weekly
Paris CDG = 5x weekly
Jersey = 3x weekly