<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-center">History Humberside Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The airport was previously a Royal Air Force base, RAF Kirmington, opened in 1941 during the Second World War, from which No. 166 Squadron RAF operated the Avro Lancaster. The site was abandoned after the war in 1945, and lay unused until 1974 when the local council re-opened the site as Kirmington Airport. When the local area was renamed Humberside following local government re-organization in England, the name was changed to Humberside Airport. The main runway, designated 03/21 (since redesignated 02/20) was extended to its current length in 1992, allowing operation of much larger aircraft.</p>
<p class="blog-para">In 2008, MAG announced that it was conducting a review of its strategy for Humberside Airport, and all options including disposal were under consideration. Initially it announced plans to sell Humberside Airport after nine years of ownership. In December 2008, MAG announced it intended to retain Humberside Airport, due to a number of investments, such as the new &pound;1.6 million perishables hub, coupled with a surge in passenger numbers and little interest from potential bidders.</p>
<p class="blog-para">MAG sold its 83.7% share of Humberside in 2012 for &pound;2.3 million to Eastern Group to focus on the larger airports in its portfolio. It was later revealed that MAG had bought the airport for almost &pound;8 million more in 1999.Bristow Helicopters sold Eastern Airways in 2019, but retained its majority share of Humberside Airport.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Operations</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The airport faces competition for flights from East Midlands Airport (70 mi (110 km)), and Leeds Bradford Airport (74 mi (119 km)); all of which, at 2023, have a much wider range of scheduled passenger flights. Passengers at the airport peaked in the early to mid-2000s when the facility was used by around 500,000 per year. This fell to around 200,000 passengers in 2016.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Ground transport Humberside Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The 'Humber Flyer' by Stagecoach no longer serves Humberside Airport. Instead, Hornsby's Bus and Coach run a 2 hourly service to the town of Kirmington, while stopping within airport grounds each way (Monday-Friday).</p>
<p class="blog-para"><strong>Rail</strong></p>
<p class="blog-para">The airport lies close to the South Humberside Main Line, which runs between Doncaster and the coast at Grimsby and Cleethorpes, running a few hundred metres to the north of the terminal. There is no stop on the line at this point and passengers must alight at the small, rural and unmanned Barnetby railway station some 2+1&frasl;2 miles (4.0 km) to the west of the airport, or proceed to Grimsby or Hull and use the bus service.</p>
<p class="blog-para">As of May 2022, a bus service operates from Scunthorpe calling at the surrounding villages (including Barnetby) and terminates at nearby Kirmington. The bus service runs on a two-hourly frequency and calls at Humberside Airport. However, the bus does not call at Barnetby railway station, so passengers must walk a short distance to the nearby bus stop on Kings Road.</p>
<h2 class="blog-hed2 pb-lg-4 pb-3 text-lg-left">Facilities Humberside Airport</h2>
<p class="blog-para">The airline Eastern Airways has its head office in the Schiphol House on the airport property. Links Air was based at the airport, but moved to Doncaster Sheffield Airport in 2014.</p>
<p class="blog-para">BAE Systems opened an aircraft maintenance academy at the airport in the autumn of 2015. It is a partnership with the Resource Group and is known as the R J Mitchell Academy, after the designer of the Spitfire aircraft.</p>
<p class="blog-para">In 2010 a temporary hotel was erected for the use by the gas and oil rig workers. However, this operation is not designed or licensed to operate as accommodation for normal passengers. This is a temporary structure run by Nightel,a locally based niche business. There was a plan to build a permanent structure in the next five years once demand for the facility had been confirmed. A new 100-bedroom hotel, operating under the Hampton by Hilton brand, opened next to Nightel in July 2017.</p>
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