Aberdeen Airport is the third largest airport in Scotland handling over 3.16 million passengers flying with charter and scheduled airlines in 2006, showing an increase of 10.9% on figures for the previous year. We have compiled a list of all the destinations you can get to from Aberdeen Airport, together with contact details for the airlines. For more information visit our Aberdeen Airport flights directory.

The airport has one main passenger terminal, but as Aberdeen is the largest oil-related centre in Europe, it has a commercial heliport with three terminals dedicated to North Sea helicopter operations carrying around 468,000 passengers every year. The airport is located 10 kilometres from the City Centre on the A96 Aberdeen to Inverness Road.

The Arrivals Hall at the airport is relatively small with the taxi rank and car hire companies situated just outside. There are no shops, bars or restaurants here, but there are some once you get through security into the departures area. To find out more visit our guide to shops and guide to restaurants at Aberdeen Airport. The Information Desk, cash dispenser machine and currency exchange bureau are also in the departures area, and you want to check live flight arrivals or departures from Aberdeen Airport our arrivals and departures guides provide this information.

If you are thinking of hiring a car from the airport, there are four car hire companies to choose from in the terminal building: Avis, Europcar, Hertz and National. You can find full contact details and obtain a free online quote in our write up on car hire at Aberdeen Airport.

If you prefer to get a taxi to your destination, then Rainbow Taxis are the approved provider at the airport and you do not have to pre-book unless you require wheelchair transport or want to be taken outside the city boundary. For full details on how to make a booking visit our taxi guide.
Public transport at Aberdeen Airport is provided by Stagecoach and First who run a regular bus services to and from the City Centre where you can make further local connections. You can find further information on bus routes and timetables in our Aberdeen Airport bus guide. There is no train station or link to the rail network at the airport but the nearest station is only in Dyce, which is a couple of miles away. From here you can link to Inverness and Aberdeen which offers more routes to the rest of the country.

If you are departing from Aberdeen Airport and want to leave your car there then there are three car parks available: Fast Track, Short Stay and Long Stay. All are a short distance from the terminal building and a shuttle bus runs regularly from the Long Stay Car Park where disabled parking is situated.

Finally we provide full details on the weather at Aberdeen Airport and the surrounding area, as well as a 5 and 10 day forecast.

This guide to Aberdeen Airport was written by Linda Craik who is the main editor for UK Airport Guide.co.uk which is a comprehensive guide to all UK Airports

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It’s never a good idea to speak evil of anyone, you end up sounding like a gossip, or what’s worse you sound like someone with an axe to grind, prejudiced and out to do harm, so that you gain greater stature. This is not a good policy. You should generally follow the golden rule, “If you have nothing good to say about someone, say nothing.”

However, I’d like to tell you about an incident from several years back.

I was sitting in my office talking to three prospective clients. They were all members of the same lounge band. They were playing locally for a short time and they wanted to record a demo. There were to be about half a dozen songs video taped with each one lasting no longer than a minute or two.

We were talking about coming at closing time and shooting until dawn. I was explaining what techniques I would use and what scenes I would be looking for, when an associate came into my office. She smiled at my guests and then walked over to my desk and put down an article face down, turned around and walked away. At the door she looked back at me. I peaked at the article, nodded and smiled. I turned back to my clients and said, “It’s a news story about a competitor, they haven’t paid their taxes.”

The discussion went on. It soon sounded like their decisions came down to two video production companies, of which we were one. They wanted to know what kind of clients we had and how secure their stock footage would be. I assured them we had long-standing, important clients and pointed to the shelves of client tapes on the wall.

I asked the name of their other choice and they mentioned “ABC Video Productions.” I said, “Oh, yes. They do really good stuff. I used to work with them a couple of years ago.”

The direction of the meeting took a short-cut with the following action, however. With two fingers I moved the article on my desk a few inches closer to them and said, “Would you like to read about them?”

The jaws of my clients nearly reached the floor in disbelief, and then they all laughed. They passed the article back and forth among them. The implication being the production company’s assets could be seized, and among those assets would be client stock footage. I never said a word.

We signed a contract and my clients had a wonderful demo. My competitor eventually went out of business.

I said nothing harmful about my competitor, but had only made certain information available to my clients. All I really did was flick my fingers. They made their decision and actually felt relieved. I’ve never felt bad about what I did. Would you?

Author Don Doman: Don is a published author of books for small business, corporate video producer, and owner of Ideas and Training (http://www.ideasandtraining.com), which provides business training products. Don also owns Human Resources Radio (http://www.humanresourcesradio.com), which provides business training programs and previews 24-hours a day.

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There is much talk today about ethics in business - as there should be, but there should be more than talk; there should be a high moral code for all executives who are responsible to both their customers and their shareholders.

I have been the president and CEO of one publicly owned company and also was president of another that was responsible to customers who traded equities. This carries a high responsibility to all concerned. You have to be more than worried if you do something wrong because you will go to jail. You must have the desire to try to always do your best for everyone who works for you as well as all the customers or investors that deal with your company.

Ethics is supposed to be either black or white, right or wrong, but today it is many shades of grey. If any company does shady business you can be sure it starts at the top and filters down because the president is the one who sets the example for the actions of the entire company. This is as true for actions of our elected officials as it is for corporations or individuals. We have had some pretty sorry examples of that in Washington.

Each time there is a new scandal the public seems less disturbed. The recent disclosure that mutual funds have been allowing hedge funds and other large traders to take positions after the closing bell is a brutal example. Maybe investors are not aware that someone is writing checks on their account. This is stolen money that is no different than a guy with a gun holding up a 7-11 store. Yes, the one difference is that the mutual funds have allowed millions of dollars to be siphoned off from those to whom they owed a fiduciary relationship. The fund manager is a crook and deserves jail time. He just took the money with a click of the computer keyboard and that was his weapon. White collar crime deserves the same punishment as the guy with a gun.

When you give a brokerage company, a mutual fund or any financial institution your money you expect, in fact, you demand, that they treat you fairly within the rules of the industry. When you are short-changed you should not accept it.

Because of the huge amounts of money available and accessible to people in the financial industry it is easy to understand how they can be tempted into criminal actions. That is why all publicly traded companies are required to have their books audited annually. Lately we have seen that even these audits are tainted.

Investors rely upon the numbers set before them in order to make decisions about owning stock in a company. If the information is dishonest a proper decision cannot be made.

Today we are seeing another type of corporate officer being created. He is called the Governance Officer. It is his job to see that the company maintains high ethical standards. I applaud this action and hope he cannot be seduced by big bucks.

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