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To help you prepare for Brexit, you will find below a regional list of English airports with opening hours of their cargo operations and nearby towns and cities.
Having information on airport operations to hand can greatly facilitate priority freight operations in normal times. This will be more crucial still once Brexit comes into effect on 1 January 2021.
In the New Year, reactivity will be needed to organise successful last-minute transport between England and mainland Europe.
For instance, you will need to ensure that your suppliers are well prepared for Brexit, particularly in terms of documents to provide, customs HS codes, and other essential formalities.
In addition, we would encourage you, if you have not already done so, to locate your main English suppliers on a map and identify the closest operating airports.
This way, should you have to organise an urgent flight to avoid a production stoppage at your own or your customer’s factory, this information will save you valuable time.
The following regional list of airports, sorted from north to south, should help you:
Newcastle airport / EGNY / NCL
Region: North East England Air charter operations: 24/7, night-time handling on request. Alternative airport during the daytime: Teesside airport.
Nearby cities:
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Sunderland
- South Shields
- Tyneside
- Bedlington
- Ashington
- Consett
- Durham
Teesside airport / EGNV / MME
Region: Tees Valley, North East England Air charter operations: daytime, till 10pm local time. Alternative airport at night: Newcastle airport
Nearby cities:
- Darlington
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Middlesbrough
- Hartlepool
- Durham
Doncaster Sheffield airport / EGCN / DSA
Region: South Yorkshire Air charter operations: 24/7
Nearby cities:
- Sheffield
- Doncaster
- Rotherham
- Barnsley
- Scunthorpe
Liverpool airport / EGGP / LPL
Region: North West England Air charter operations: 24/7
Nearby cities:
- Liverpool
- Manchester
- Warrington
- Blackpool
- Preston
- Stockport
- Sale
- Bolton
- St Asaph
East Midlands airport / EGNX / EMA
Region: East Midlands Air charter operations: 24/7, large airport for cargo (allow extra time to receive the cargo), night-time handling on request. Alternative airport: Birmingham or Doncaster airports
Nearby cities:
- Castle Donington
- Leicester
- Loughborough
- Derby
- Nottingham
- Northampton
- Chesterfield
- Lincoln
- Mansfield
- Kettering
Birmingham airport /EGBB / BHX
Region: West Midlands Air charter operations: 24/7
Nearby cities/counties:
- Birmingham
- Coventry
- Wolverhampton
- Solihull
- Sutton Coldfield
- Dudley
- Cannock
- Droitwich
- Shropshire
- Bedfordshire
- Staffordshire
Oxford airport/ EGTK / OXF
Region: Thames Valley, South East England Air charter operations: Daytime only, no export flights. Alternative airport at night: Birmingham airport
Nearby cities:
- Kidlington
- Oxford
- Swindon
- Slough
- Luton
- Reading
- Gloucester
- Cheltenham
- Milton Keynes
- Brockworth
- Aylesbury
- High Wycombe
Cardiff airport/ EGFF / CWL
Region: Wales Air charter operations: 24/7, night-time handling on request. Alternative airport: Birmingham airport
Nearby cities:
- Cardiff
- Swansea
- Newport
- Wrexham
- Gwent
Please note that all of the above information is subject to confirmation from the airports when booking an air charter. Furthermore, restrictions can occur with no prior notice, especially with the Covid-19.
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