In the 1950s and early 1960s, the airport was busy with cross-channel service, including car ferry flights, by private airlines such as
Silver City Airways and
Channel Air Bridge, later merged into
British United Air Ferries. On 9 July 2015, the
Airbus E-Fan landed at Calais–Dunkerque Airport after a flight from
Lydd Airport. Initially this was claimed as the first electric aircraft to cross the
English Channel, but it has since been pointed out that there were previous such flights, including
one as long ago as 1981. ==Statistics==