City of Derry Airport

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

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

08/26073° / 253° · LIT

LENGTH1,969 m6,460 ftWIDTH45 m148 ftSURFACEAsphalt

Passengers per year

2011–2022

406K

398K

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350K

284K

291K

194K

186K

204K

80K

73K

163K

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Routes

6 destinations · 1 country

Year-round6

GLAGlasgow AirportUnited Kingdom · Loganair195 km121 mi EDIEdinburgh AirportUnited Kingdom · easyJet259 km161 mi LPLLiverpool John Lennon AirportUnited Kingdom · easyJet339 km211 mi MANManchester AirportUnited Kingdom · Ryanair369 km229 mi BHXBirmingham AirportUnited Kingdom · easyJet458 km285 mi LHRLondon Heathrow AirportUnited Kingdom · Loganair597 km371 mi

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.

Airlines

3 airlines · destinations from LDY

Passenger3

U2easyJet3 LMLoganair2 FRRyanair1

Airlines and destinations as the Routes list above has them; the figure is how many destinations each flies from LDY. Hubs from Wikidata. All airlines

Records & rankings

Ranked among 48,075 open airports · world · region · country

Passengers163K (2022)1 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 64KMEDIAN · 64KMORE · 103MMORE · 103M#1,631of 3,974 · #349 Europe · #29 GB Longest runway1,969 m6,460 ft46 m · SHORT150 ft · SHORTMEDIAN · 975 mMEDIAN · 3,200 ftLONG · 5,300 mLONG · 17,388 ft=4,147of 29,858 · #777 Europe · #46 GB Elevation7 m22 ft-386 m · LOW-1,266 ft · LOWMEDIAN · 240 mMEDIAN · 787 ftHIGH · 4,938 mHIGH · 16,200 ft=41,157of 43,403 · =5,552 Europe · =600 GB AgeOpened 19412026 · NEWEST2026 · NEWESTMEDIAN · 1976MEDIAN · 1976OLDEST · 1902OLDEST · 1902=1,548of 15,079 · =581 Europe · =93 GB Runways11 · FEWER1 · FEWERMEDIAN · 1MEDIAN · 1MORE · 8MORE · 8=4,364of 29,978 · =646 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