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Edinburgh Airport is widely regarded to be the largest and busiest in Scotland. In the past twelve months it has handled around nine million passengers and in terms of UK airports is the seventh busiest. Its location is a mere eight miles from the city of Edinburgh and with a wide variety of auxiliary services such as shops, restaurants and car hire desks it employs a large number of local residents. But what is the history behind Edinburgh airport, how has it managed to assert a position of primacy over the other airports in Scotland?

The city of Belfast has two airports that act as gateways to mainland Britain and more widely the world. Both airports have road links and car hire provisions allowing travellers to not only tour the city, but also explore the surrounding countryside and Northern Island. Both airports have interesting histories and have put in place plans for the future expansion and development.

Malaga airport is currently the fourth busiest in Spain and last year over 13 million travelers passed through their doors. Today an astounding 23 UK airports provide flights to Malaga. Gone are the days of having to travel miles before even leaving the shores of the UK we can now travel from a huge variety of regional airports which makes travel to Spain easier than ever.

Stansted Airport is assured a place as the UK’s fourth major airport although if current expansion plans are completed this position could increase substantially. Even before expansion is completed however, Stansted is a modern airport complete with its own rail link, motorway access, car hire services and retail areas. Predominantly it is the low cost budget airlines that use the Stansted Airport site to fly to destinations all over Europe. These destinations are numerous, at the last count it was over one hundred and seventy. The result of flying to so many different destinations is that over twenty million people use Stansted Airport annually; naturally auxiliary services such as shops restaurants and car hire desks are all prevalent in the terminal due to the large profits that can be made from passengers.

Aviation is a big contributor to our modern day development; it has introduced things such as airmail. By the 1920’s governments around the world began to form their own national airlines through combining the numerous private lines they already had operating in their respective nations. One such example is the British government which created the British Airways.

With the surplus of planes left after World War I, thousands of armed services planes were converted to civilian use. In 1919, bombers were being converted in EU to form over twenty small new airlines. The first habitue international airline service created by aviation sources started by one of those, the company setup by Henry and Maurice Farman exploited old Farman bombers through aviation development to make every week flights from Paris and Brussels.