George Best Belfast City Airport

George Best Belfast City Airport (EGAC) is a medium airport in Belfast, NIR, United Kingdom. Pilots and dispatchers reference it by ICAO code EGAC or IATA code BHD. It sits in Europe.

George Best Belfast City Airport is a regional commercial airport that doubles as a busy private-aviation base. Operators benefit from full instrument approaches and an FBO infrastructure scaled for regular jet traffic, often without the congestion of the nearest major hub.

George Best Belfast City Airport sits near sea level at 15 ft.

Local operations run on Europe/London. Scheduled airline service is light enough that it rarely interferes with charter movements, though planners should still expect to coordinate with the handling agent for international turnarounds.

SkyAccess currently tracks 13 departing and 17 arriving private-jet legs at EGAC across the next six months of operator inventory. 5 charter operators have run trips through this field in our recent inventory window.

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Belfast City Airport, formally George Best Belfast City Airport, is an international airport in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Situated in County Down, it is adjacent to the Belfast Harbour and is three miles from Belfast City Centre. It shares the site with the Spirit AeroSystems aircraft manufacturing facility. The airport began commercial operations in 1983, and was known as "Belfast City Airport" until it was renamed in 2006 in memory of George Best, the professional footballer from Belfast. The airport has a CAA public use aerodrome licence that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.