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Aberdeen Airport Information

Facilities

Aberdeen Airport provides a good range of facilities for business and leisure travellers including children and those requiring special assistance.

Business Facilities - The Servisair Executive Lounge is available for all passengers and provides them with a quiet space complete with complimentary drinks, snacks, newspapers and magazines for a small fee. Passengers can use its facilities for up to three hours before their flight. This lounge is on the first floor, after security control, and is available for departing passengers only. There is an extra charge made for champagne, business facilities and internet access.

British Airways Executive Club members, or BA passengers with fully flexible tickets for travel in the UK, can use the British Airways Terraces Lounge. This has a well-equipped combined business and communications centre.

Eastern Airways passengers have access to the Eastern Airways Lounge, which offers complimentary refreshments and a comfortable space in which to wait for your flight. It is located on the northern walkway, near Gate 10.

Internet desks with broadband-connected PCs are available in the terminal, after security (near Gate 5 and also Gate 10). Payment can be made online by credit card, by voucher, or by coin (UK pound or euro). Wireless internet access is available via your laptop computer or handheld device. Wireless hotspots in the terminal enable you to connect instantly and work or surf on the move. There is a choice of service providers. You'll need a wireless compatible (Wi-fi 802.11b) device.

Leisure Facilities - Aberdeen Airport has a good range of shopping, eating and banking facilities which include Boots; Costa Coffee; Dixons; Tie Rack; Travelex; W H Smith and World Duty Free Shopping. There are ATMs; an airport information point; baby changing facilities; a children's play area, left baggage, lost property, telephones, toilets and trolleys available throughout the terminal.

Special Assistance Facilities - Access to the terminal building is via revolving doors, which can be slowed by pressing a button. All public facilities are located on the ground floor and are wheelchair friendly. There are Induction loops in the terminal, indicated by "sympathetic ear" signs. There is tactile signage in place at the entrance to the toilets. All directional signs are black on yellow, providing optimum contrast to assist all passengers.

There are designated help points located in the short stay car parks and in the drop off forecourt area. Reserved seating is provided beside the forecourt telephones. All help points are clearly signposted. A help desk for passengers requiring assistance is located inside the main terminal building opposite WH Smith and is clearly signposted. Accessibility to and from the aircraft for passengers with impaired mobility is normally by a covered ambu-lift vehicle and wheelchairs are provided free of charge for use throughout the terminal.

There are unisex wheelchair-accessible toilets before and after security and parents travelling with children are welcome to use these facilities. For further enquiries about special needs assistance at Aberdeen Airport please call +44 (0)844 481 6666. If you are deaf or hard of hearing, please call the Aberdeen minicom service on Minicom +44 (0)141 585 6161.

Transport

Aberdeen Airport has three car parks offering short and long term parking. Carparking.com can arrange off-airport parking for Aberdeen Airport with our parking partners located just two miles away. They provide an efficient, reliable and cost-effective Park and Ride service.

The nearest rail station to the airport is Dyce, which is about two miles from the terminal and easily reached by bus or taxi. Dyce is on the Aberdeen-Inverness line and is also served by some through trains from Glasgow and Edinburgh.

There are regular buses that run from the airport to Aberdeen City Centre and other local destinations which include the First Aberdeen Service 80 - Dyce Airlink Bus, a service that ties in with the ScotRail train service and links Dyce rail station with Aberdeen Airport, the Heliport and Kirkhill Industrial Estate from Monday to Friday. 06:45 to 19:38.

Taxi's are available from the terminal forecourt and the cab booking office nearby.

History

Aberdeen Airport was opened on 28th July 1934 and its intended use was to provide a link to the northern islands of Scotland and London. During the Second World War the airfield was taken over by the RAF and was mainly used as a photographic reconnaissance base. The airport was nationalised in 1947. 1967 saw the first offshore helicopter flight by Bristow linking the growing number of North Sea oil rigs to the mainland. With the North Sea oil boom in full swing, Aberdeen Airport became the world's largest heliport.

In 1975 the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) handed Aberdeen Airport over to the British Airports Authority (BAA) and two years later a new terminal was opened after a £10 million investment at the airport. A major departure lounge development was completed in 1992.

Local noise constraints had prevented the airport from accepting or dispatching aircraft between 22:30 and 06:00, however the city council removed this restriction in March 2005 and the airport can now operate 24 hours a day. In 2006, the Spanish Ferrovial Group took control of BAA and its airports. A £10 million refurbished Departure Lounge was opened in June 2007 and work began in the following year on a £2 million terminal forecourt project. Aberdeen Airport celebrated its 75th birthday in July 2009. With a thriving helicopter industry and a growing demand for fixed-wing services, Aberdeen has the busiest runway/airspace in Scotland and the fifth-busiest runway in the United Kingdom.