Title: Edinburgh Airport
1Edinburgh Airport setting the stage for
Scotlands future Edinburgh Business
Assembly 2nd December 2008
2Our contribution to the economy
- Scotlands busiest airport
- A major local employer
- Key to Edinburghs main
- business sectors
- tourism
- financial services
- bioscience
- - Fraser of Allander Institute report found
Edinburgh airport - supported 7,200 jobs across Scotland
- contributed 287 million to the Scottish economy
every year
- Direct employment at Edinburgh Airport forecast
to increase to 5,700 by 2013 and to 9,000 by 2030
3Connecting Edinburgh with the world
Over 40 airlines serving over 100 destinations in
28 countries
4Edinburgh Airport today a major success story
- Over 9.1 million passengers a year a four
fold increase since privatisation - 128,000 aircraft movements a year
- 60 domestic
- 40 international
- Serving over 100 domestic and international
destinations
- Over 24,000 tonnes of cargo and 26,000 tonnes
of mail a year - Over 400 companies providing goods and services
5Investing for the future
In 2008...
Runway resurfacing 16m
New aircraft stands - 13m
Departure Lounge 29m
Mar 05 - 9m
Mar 07 - 2m
Oct 06 - 14m
Apr 06 - 2m
Nov 04 - 20m
Car Rental Centre 8m
Nov 05 - 11m
6Our plans for the future
- - Background
- UK Government consultation (Dec 00)
- White paper published December (Dec 03)
- - The Edinburgh Airport Master Plan
- draft plan put out for consultation in May 05
- 86 responses received
- final plan published July 06
- 34 of document changed from the draft
- The West Edinburgh Planning
- Framework
- draft published for consultation in November 06
- considers the development of West Edinburgh
- final plan published in May 2008
7Our plans up to 2013
- We forecast
- 12-14 million passengers
- (currently 9 million)
- 42 aircraft stands
- (currently 27)
- 67,000 tonnes of cargo
- (currently 50,000 tonnes)
- At the airport
- developing within our existing land boundary
- bigger terminal building and more aircraft
stands - new taxiways to increase runway capacity
- new road access from M8 and additional spur
from A8 required - new tram link by 2011
8Our plans up to 2020
- We forecast
- 15-18 million passengers
- (currently 9 million)
- 48-57 aircraft stands
- (currently 27)
- 80,400 tonnes of cargo
- (currently 50,000 tonnes)
- At the airport
- developing onto RHASS land for terminal and
stand capacity - RHASS not now to be relocated in this time
period - runway can accommodate traffic
9Our plans up to 2030
- We forecast
- 19-26 million passengers
- (currently 9 million)
- 58-65 aircraft stands
- (currently 27)
- 98,000 tonnes of cargo
- (currently 50,000 tonnes)
- At the airport
- additional RHASS land required for airfield and
ancillary - possible second parallel runway may be required
- possible closure of existing crosswind runway
10Todays challenges - security
- The changing face of security
- September 11th 2001 and August 10th 2006 changed
security at our airports - New restrictions on hand luggage including sharp
items and liquids - Investing for good customer service
- 2 million additional investment in security
- - 40 new security staff
- - 4 new x-ray machines
- - new security search area
- 95 of passengers pass through security in less
than 5 minutes
- Effective policing of the airport
- BAA pays over 2.4 million a year towards the
policing of Edinburgh Airport
11Todays challenges - environment
- Putting the debate into context
- The Stern Report says aviation accounts for just
1.6 of CO2 - Forecast to grow to 5 by 2050
- Emissions trading scheme
- Including aviation in an EU wide carbon rationing
scheme - Reduce total emissions
- Effective action at the airport
- Full time environment manager
- - improved recycling
- - minimise waste
- - better energy efficiency
Other 8
Aviation 1.6
Other transport 12.4
Power 24
Buildings 8
Industry 14
Agriculture 14
Deforestation 18
- Real action on other impacts
- noise
- air quality
- water quality
12Todays challenges - access
- How our passengers get to our airport
- 45 private car
- 24 public transport
- 24 taxi
- 6 hire car
- 1 other
- Public transport improvements
- Surface Access Strategy 27 PT target
- Edinburgh Trams
- A new rail station at Gogar
- Good road access is essential
- Eastfield Road built for 2 million passengers
- Gogar link road
- New direct link to the M8
Deforestation 18
13- delivering great customer service
- investing for the future
- connecting our city region with the world
- sharing our success