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Exeter International Airport is an airport close to the city of Exeter in the county of Devon, England.
The airport handled 1,024,730 passengers in 2007, the first time over 1 million passengers have used the airport in a single year , which represented a 4.3% increase on the 2006 passenger total of 982,804 . The airport offers both scheduled and holiday charter flights within the United Kingdom, Europe and Canada.
The majority of flights at the airport are operated by low-cost airline Flybe, which has its headquarters in Exeter. The airline also has four maintenance hangars at the airport, the newest built in 2005 and 2006, which are equipped to service Bombardier Q400, Embraer ERJ-195, Embraer ERJ-145 and BAe 146 aircraft, which from the major part of the airline's fleet.
Holiday charter airlines also operate from the airport, with First Choice Airways having a permanent base at Exeter since 2007. Air Transat offer transatlantic scheduled flights to Toronto operating once a week during the summer season.
Further route expansion at the airport is limited by the relatively small apron size, with only 11 aircraft parking stands[citation needed]. The airport has proposed an apron expansion which will mean the removal of the grass apron area, which would provide an additional seven parking stands.
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