# East Midlands Airport (EMA)

> Nottingham, GB · IATA: EMA · ICAO: EGNX · Medium Airport · Cargo Hub

## Quick Facts

| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| IATA | `EMA` |
| ICAO | `EGNX` |
| City | Nottingham |
| Country | GB |
| Type | Medium Airport |
| Elevation | 93 m |
| Cargo | ✅ |
| GPS | 52.83110, -1.32806 |

## Description

DHL, UPS and FedEx all run their main UK hubs from East Midlands Airport (IATA: EMA, ICAO: EGNX), and that concentration makes it one of Britain's three largest cargo airports. The field at Castle Donington, Leicestershire handled around 414,000 tonnes of freight in the 2025/26 financial year, up 12.5% year on year. Royal Mail adds nightly mail flights, and cargo operations run 24 hours a day — unusually, EMA has no night-flight curfew of the kind that constrains many UK airports. Several new freight carriers launched in 2025, a number of them on direct China–UK routes, lifting e-commerce volumes further. Trucks reach Midlands warehousing within minutes via the M1 motorway, with Birmingham and Nottingham each about 30 kilometres away. On the passenger side Ryanair, Jet2 and TUI serve mainly leisure destinations. For shippers, EMA is the go-to gateway for express and parcel freight in central England, while pure intercontinental belly capacity tends to consolidate at London Heathrow.

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*Freight Academy — Airport Profile: [https://www.freight-academy.com/en/information/airports/east-midlands-airport-ema](https://www.freight-academy.com/en/information/airports/east-midlands-airport-ema)*

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