East Midlands Airport

East Midlands Airport
East Midlands Airport
	IATA: EMA; ICAO: EGNX;
Summary
Airport type	Public
Owner/Operator	Manchester Airport Holdings
Serves	East Midlands
Location	Castle Donington, Leicestershire, England, UK
Hub for	DHL Aviation; UPS Airlines;
Focus city for	Eastern Airways; Jet2.com; Ryanair; TUI Airways;
Elevation AMSL	306 ft / 93 m
Coordinates	52°50′N 001°20′W / 52.833°N 1.333°W
Website	eastmidlandsairport.com
Map
	EMA/EGNX Location in Leicestershire EMA/EGNX EMA/EGNX (the United Kingdom)
Runways
Statistics (2022)
Passengers
Passengers	3,186,367
Passenger change 21-22	283%
Aircraft movements	46,730
Movements change 21-22	32%
	Sources: UK AIP at NATS; Statistics from the UK Civil Aviation Authority

East Midlands Airport (IATA: EMA, ICAO: EGNX) is an international airport in the East Midlands of England, close to Castle Donington in northwestern Leicestershire, between Loughborough (10 miles (16 km)), Derby (12.5 miles (20 km)) and Nottingham (14 miles (23 km)); Leicester is (20 miles (32 km)) to the south and Lincoln (43 miles (69 km)) northeast. It serves the majority of the East Midlands region consisting of Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire, Southern Lincolnshire, Rutland and Derbyshire. The airfield was originally built as a Royal Air Force station known as RAF Castle Donington in 1943, before being redeveloped as a civilian airport in 1965.

East Midlands Airport has established itself as a hub for low-fare airlines such as Jet2.com and Ryanair and tour operators like TUI Airways, which serve a range of domestic and European short-haul destinations. In 2022, the airport was the 14th-busiest airport in the UK by passenger traffic. A central air cargo hub, it was the second-busiest UK airport for freight traffic in 2016, after London Heathrow.^[4]

The airport is owned by the Manchester Airports Group (MAG), the largest British-owned airport operator, which is controlled by the ten metropolitan borough councils of Greater Manchester, with Manchester City Council retaining the controlling stake.^[5]

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