Aberdeen International Airport guide

Aberdeen International Airport is in the Dyce suburb, about 10 km northwest of Aberdeen city centre. It serves north-east Scotland and handles 2.3 million passengers a year. Scheduled flights run to London, other UK cities, Amsterdam, Paris and Scandinavian destinations, with holiday services in summer.

The airport is also one of the busiest heliports in the world. Helicopters account for almost half of all movements, flying crews to oil and gas platforms in the North Sea. Bristow, CHC, NHV and Babcock each run their own helicopter terminal beside the main passenger building. Besides the main runway of 1,953 m, the airfield has three shorter helicopter-only runways.

The airfield opened in 1934 as Dyce Aerodrome, founded by Eric Gandar Dower for his flying school and Aberdeen Airways. It served as RAF Dyce in the Second World War, was nationalised in 1947 and passed to the British Airports Authority in 1975. North Sea helicopter flights began in 1967. It took its current name in 2013, and AGS Airports bought it in 2014.