Southampton Airport (IATA: SOU, ICAO: EGHI) is the 20th largest airport in the UK, located in the Borough of Eastleigh within Hampshire, England.
Southampton Airport is owned and operated by BAA, which also owns and operates six other UK airports, including the three busiest airports serving London, and is itself owned by an international consortium led by the Spanish Ferrovial Group.
The airport handled 1,945,993 passengers during 2008, a 1.0% r...
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Southampton Airport (IATA: SOU, ICAO: EGHI) is the 20th largest airport in the UK, located in the Borough of Eastleigh within Hampshire, England.
Southampton Airport is owned and operated by BAA, which also owns and operates six other UK airports, including the three busiest airports serving London, and is itself owned by an international consortium led by the Spanish Ferrovial Group.
The airport handled 1,945,993 passengers during 2008, a 1.0% reduction on the 2007 total of 1,965,686. Southampton Airport has a CAA Public Use Aerodrome Licence (Number P690) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction.
The airport's runway is reputed to be built over the remains of a Roman villa.
According to local history author John Edgar Mann's Book of the Stonehams the site's connection with aviation can be traced back to 1910 when pioneer pilot Eric Moon used the meadows belonging to North Stoneham Farm as a take-off and landing spot for his monoplane,...
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