# City of Derry Airport (LDY)

> Derry, GB · IATA: LDY · ICAO: EGAE · Medium Airport

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `LDY` |
| ICAO | `EGAE` |
| City | Derry |
| Country | GB |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 7 m |
| Cargo | ❌ |
| GPS | 55.04280, -7.16111 |

## Description

easyJet, Loganair and Ryanair UK between them fly the entire scheduled programme at City of Derry Airport (IATA: LDY, ICAO: EGAE), the only commercial airport in the north-west of Northern Ireland. Sitting at Eglinton on the shore of Lough Foyle, roughly 11 km north-east of Derry/Londonderry and close to the border with the Republic of Ireland, it handled 220,037 passengers in 2025, up 22.9 percent year on year. easyJet is the largest operator with Birmingham, Edinburgh and Liverpool, Loganair flies London Heathrow and Glasgow under a public service obligation backed by 4.6 million pounds of government funding to March 2027, and Ryanair UK serves Manchester; a state-supported Derry–Dublin service is planned for 2026. There is no freight terminal, no air-cargo handling agent and no scheduled freighter activity — anything moving by air travels as belly load on regional aircraft, which caps both weight and dimensions. Belfast International (BFS) and its cargo centre, about 110 km away via the A6, is the nearest realistic air-freight option, while intercontinental consignments almost always route through Dublin (DUB) some 240 km to the south. On the customs side, goods arriving in Northern Ireland from Great Britain follow the Windsor Framework procedures introduced after Brexit, with Northern Ireland still applying EU goods rules.

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