Up, up and away – this stunning time lapse image compiled by the Press and Journal’s photographers offers a snapshot of a day in the life of Aberdeen Airport.
Opened in 1934, it is now Scotland’s third busiest with the fifth busiest runway in the UK.
Each day the skies come alive with brightly-coloured planes taking off for locations from Bergen to Belfast, Copenhagen to Corfu and Sumburgh to Sicily.
The site at Dyce is also home to the world’s busiest commercial heliport with offshore helicopters taking workers to and from the North Sea platforms accounting for half of the 3.5 million passengers passing through last year.
Bosses have invested £52million in the north-east’s international gateway in the last 10 years – including a £10million departure lounge unveiled in 2007 and an extension to the runway, completed in 2011, which paved the way for bigger and faster aircraft to land.
And the sky is the limit as the future beckons, with an ambitious £100 million programme of capital investment planned to bring major improvements and expansions over the next two decades.
The terminal will undergo a significant facelift with an expansion of the departure lounge, new airline lounges, shops and restaurants to service ever-increasing passenger numbers.