{"id":66831,"date":"2024-06-17T00:00:13","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T14:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/east-midlands-airport-cargo\/"},"modified":"2024-06-17T00:00:13","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T14:00:13","slug":"why-is-east-midlands-airport-such-a-significant-cargo-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=66831","title":{"rendered":"Why Is East Midlands Airport Such A Significant Cargo Hub?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            When it comes to passenger traffic, East Midlands Airport (EMA) serves European destinations with low-cost and leisure carriers, while nearby Birmingham (BHX) is the Midlands&#8217; hub for full-service and longer-haul traffic. As such, EMA ranks modestly among UK airports compared to its West Midlands rival, with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caa.co.uk\/data-and-analysis\/uk-aviation-market\/airports\/uk-airport-data\/uk-airport-data-2023\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" >CAA<\/a> data showing that it ranks 14th in the UK by passenger traffic, compared to 7th for BHX.    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite not being a passenger powerhouse, EMA is one of the UK&#8217;s top airports for cargo traffic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,10504,620,4296,120,567,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airfreight","category-cargo","category-east-midlands","category-europe","category-guides","category-uk"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66832,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66831\/revisions\/66832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}