LDY

City of Derry Airport

ICAO EGAE55.0428°N 7.1611°W7 m / 22 ftMedium airport
On the map

City of Derry Airport (IATA: LDY, ICAO: EGAE) is a medium airport in Derry, Derry and Strabane, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. It opened in 1941. It has one runway, 1,969 m (6,460 ft) long, asphalt. In 2022 it handled 163 thousand passengers.

Timeline

1 event · 1941–1941
1941
OpenedCity of Derry Airport opens.
From WikidataEvery airfield, 1903–2026

Runways & airfield

Schematic · N · © OpenStreetMap
City of Derry Airport
08/26073° / 253° · LIT
LENGTH1,969 m6,460 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022
406K
398K
385K
350K
284K
291K
194K
186K
204K
80K
73K
163K
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Routes

6 destinations · 1 country
Most destinationseasyJet 3Loganair 2Ryanair 1

Straight lines are great circles; rings mark true distance from LDY. From the Wikipedia article “City of Derry Airport” (revision of 10 Jul 2026), CC BY-SA 4.0.

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,011 open airports · world · region · country
Passengers163K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,631of 3,974 · #347 Europe · #29 GBLongest runway1,969 m6,460 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,146of 29,823 · #771 Europe · #46 GBElevation7 m22 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,097of 43,341 · =5,541 Europe · =600 GBAgeOpened 19412026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,548of 15,079 · =581 Europe · =93 GBRunways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,360of 29,943 · =643 Europe · =120 GB
Scale: share of airports ranked below, best on the right · ties shown as = and a band · passengers are each airport’s latest year on record

Radio frequencies

3 channels
APPEglinton Approach123.625
TWREglinton Tower134.155
ATISEglinton Information119.380