Filming & photography

Guidelines for commercial filming and photography

Commercial filming opportunities are available at Bristol Airport. The charges and conditions of filming are set out below and must be strictly adhered to.

Charges

Landside £300 per hour.

Anywhere inside the airport perimeter including:

• Car Parks
• External shots of Terminal building
• Road ways
• Old terminal building
• Air Traffic Control Tower
• Inside the terminal building including:
• Check in and Arrivals
• Restaurant and Shops
• Any area inside the terminal PRIOR to security and passport control

Airside £500 per hour.

All areas which require security clearance including:

• Departures lounge
• Airside restaurant
• Business lounges
• Aircraft boarding area (Apron)
• Baggage reclaim

Escorts £160 per escort for up to 4 hours, £320 per escort for up to 8 hours.

1 escort is required per 6 people to be escorted.

Examples of charges

For 7 people to film 2 hours landside, 3 hours airside:

2 hours filming landside @ £300 - £600
3 hours filming airside @£500 - £1500
2 escorts for up to 8 hours - £640
Total- £2,740

Conditions of Filming at Bristol Airport

Bristol Airport reserves the right to interrupt or halt any filming and photography in progress without notice.

Security procedures may not be filmed.

Customers/staff may not be filmed or interviewed without the prior written permission of Bristol Airport or the Airline/Tour Operator.

Branding and signage of business partners and airlines must not be filmed without the permission of the operator concerned.

Start and end times for filming must be agreed in advance and must be strictly adhered to.

Film crews must be accompanied by an escort from Bristol Airport at all times. For airside filming, 1 escort per 6 people is required for security reasons.

Health and Safety requirements must be complied with at all times. A full risk assessment must be undertaken by the film company and this assessment plus plans and filming schedules must be submitted in advance to the Health and Safety Manager at Bristol Airport.

A copy of your insurance policy must be submitted. For high risk activities, there must be £10 million of cover; for low risk, £5 million is required.
Filming with live animals has different restrictions – the use of any animal may be subject to stringent control measures. For specific information, please contact the Marketing Dept at the address given below.

To book filming, 7 working days notice is required.

For further information and to book filming, please contact:

Jacqui Mills
Administration Building
Bristol Airport
Bristol
BS48 3DY
Tel: 01275 473615
jmills@bristolairport.com