Edinburgh airport is located 13 km from the centre of Edinburgh and handled 9 million passengers in 2007 making it the busiest; there were more than 128,000 flight movements. It’s owned and operated by British Airports Authority and the airport started off as a small base in 1915. It has 1 terminal and has IATA and ICAO codes as EDI and EGPH respectively. Serving as the hub for easyJet, flyglobespan, and Ryanair, the Edinburgh airport also sees Air France, Scandinavian Airlines System, and Continental Airlines among others. The charter airlines are Monarch Airlines, First Choice Airways, and Onus Air. In 2001, a Royal Mail flight to Belfast crashed resulting in the loss of the entire crew.

Get off A8 from central Edinburgh to get to the airport. M9 and M90 motorways are other ways to access the airport. The tram line that is being planned would cater to the growing demands of the airport, from 2011.

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