Norwich was acquired in March 2004 from Norfolk County Council and Norwich City Council, who both retain a minority share (19.9%).

Under the terms of the acquisition, Omniport committed to an £8.3 million five-year capital expenditure programme to update and expand the airport's facilities in order to accommodate the forecast growth in passenger numbers.

This figure has already been exceeded with Omniport investing over £14 million in its first four years of ownership. This has included the investment of over £4 million in a new state of the art extension to the main terminal building which now provides a far more comfortable environment for passengers.

However, due to the requirement for continuing investment, particularly in the operational infrastructure of the airport (runways, taxiways and aprons) Omniport has had to make the difficult decision to introduce an Airport Development Fee (ADF) for all passengers departing through the airport from 2nd April 2007.  This follows the introduction of a similar fee at Newquay International Airport in Cornwall.

Norwich International Airport serves the whole of East Anglia - a potential catchment area of up to 4 million people and it is over 90 miles from its nearest competing airport (London Stansted).

Since Omniport acquired the airport, there has been a rapid rise in the number and frequency of scheduled services - passenger numbers have increased from 450,000 in the year ended 31st March 2005 to 680,000 in 2008.

Currently scheduled routes operate to  Aberdeen, Alicante, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Chambery, Dublin, Edinburgh, Exeter, Geneva, Guernsey, Jersey, Manchester and Paris. A wide range of charter services also operate to popular holiday destinations.

Historically Norwich has been underserved by scheduled services and Omniport has been instrumental in establishing new services from Flybe and more recently from LTE.  Further scheduled services are currently being developed with a number of interested airlines.

The airport also owns 100% of Travel Norwich Airport Limited, and 100% of Legislator 1364 Ltd,  which owns the Norwich Airport Call Centre building currently let to Royal Bank of Scotland.

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