TURNHOUSE Airport’s elegant new terminal was opened in April 1956 by Harold Watkinson, Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation. It meant that Scotland now had two of the three permanent terminal buildings erected since the war at British airports. The other two were at Renfrew and London airports. The £84,000 Turnhouse terminal was expected to deal with, on then-current estimates, well over 70,000 passengers a year. Passenger figures had jumped from 16,000 in 1951 to 55,000 in 1954 – and in 1955, after the launch by British European Airways (BEA) of Viscount services to and from London, to nearly 70,000. BEA also operated services from Edinburgh to Birmingham, Aberdeen, Wick and Orkney, while other airlines offered flights to Dublin and Belfast, with the Isle of Man in the pipeline.
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