George Best Belfast City Airport

Operated By:

George Best Belfast City Airport

Website:

http://www.belfastcityairport.com

Terminals:

1

This Review:

Only Terminal

Rating:

4 star - Very good service with many plus points and very few negatives
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BELFAST CITY
TT0107 /221750

 
Review created: 10/11/2008;
Last updated 10/11/2008

General:

Locate on the site of the former Shorts aircraft factory, by the shipyards, the City Airport is almost in the heart of the city centre
   

Appearance:

The airport opened in 1983 and following refurbishment, still looks very modern

Inbound

Domestic
The arrivals hall is only separated from the departures lounge by a single wall, and in the process of landing you have to cross the stream of departing passengers to get to the baggage reclaim hall. From there its through a set of door and, if you are not careful, straight into the security queue for departing passengers

International
The airport only handles domestic flights (Flights between the UK and Eire are treated as effectively domestic by the two countries)

None - Airport is domestic only

Despite being a small airport, they manage to squeeze two baggage reclaim belts into the baggage hall

None - Airport is domestic only

There are frequent buses from the front of the airport to the city centre, taking about 10 minutes

Outbound

Domestic
As the airport is quite small everything is close to everything else. The queuing system for the security system starts just in front of the main entrance, with the check-in desks just to one side. Through the security check you are in the large departures lounge, from which all the gates come off of. From checkin to gate, with good speed through security could take less than two minutes.

International
The airport only handles domestic flights (Flights between the UK and Eire are treated as effectively domestic by the two countries)

A small food court landside and a couple of bar/cafés airside

A small food court landside and a couple of bar/cafés airside

There are a couple of restaurants landside, but only café/bars airside

A couple of small shops airside

The toilets are clean