Airport News
Below are news items relating to specific airports
North east says links from London to Aberdeen are vital
Date added: 23 August, 2011
A north-east transport group will urge the DfT to reconsider its “one size fits
all” approach when evaluating how accessible London is from other parts of the
country. Nestrans has completed a draft response to a consultation on the future of the
UK’s aviation industry, and has suggested Aberdeen will suffer economically if
better links with London are not established and maintained. High speed rail to
Edinburgh will not help Aberdeen.
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Two miles of 9 foot high fencing missing from Lydd Airport planning application: Public inquiry likely to be delayed
Date added: 22 August, 2011
LAAG has discovered following investigations made with the DfT and the CAA that
under UK law - the National Aviation Security Programme - Lydd Airport will be
required to security fence the perimeter of the airport with 9 ft high barbed
wire topped, chain link fencing, which must be buried in concrete. Airport management should have included the plans for the fencing in their application.
Under planning law the impact needs to be scientifically assessed.
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Passenger numbers drop by 8.9% at East Midlands Airport over the past year April to April
Date added: 22 August, 2011
Passenger figures and profits dropped at East Midlands Airport in the past year
as the recession hit travellers, the airport's annual report says. The airport
had 400,000 fewer passengers from April 2010 to April 2011 with 4.1 million people
flying from the regional hub. They partly blame the ash cloud. The airport saw
profits drop by £2.6m to £7.1m in the 2010-11 period. There was an increase of
1.1% in passengers this Easter compared to Easter 2010.
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Lydd: Activists prepare for battle to save countryside from the developers
Date added: 22 August, 2011
Down in the marshlands of Kent, battle lines are being drawn. In Lydd, people
are angry at proposals to build more homes on the edge of town at a time when
younger inhabitants are moving away. They are angry at plans to develop a series
of quarries that will have conveyor belts running all night. And they are angry
about the airport, whose expansion plans will dramatically alter the haunting
atmosphere of the marshlands, designated an AONB.
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We’ll go it alone, says Coventry Airport boss, as refused Enterprise Zone status
Date added: 20 August, 2011
The government has blocked a bid to turn land around Coventry Airport into an
Enterprise Zone - but the airport's owner insists the project will still go ahead. It aims to create 14,000 jobs in the city and see a huge area of land around
Baginton used predominantly for highly-skilled manufacturing jobs. However, losing the government-backed initiative means Coventry will not have
the advantage of tax breaks, planning relaxation, and superfast broadband.
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Richmond Council stands firm on opposition to Heathrow night flights
Date added: 20 August, 2011
The council will call for the Government to ban all night flights at Heathrow
in its official response to a consultation. Richmond Council’s special standing committee on Heathrow said no planes should take off or land
at the airport between 11pm and 7am. It will also ask for the authority to be represented when Heathrow monitors 2 trial
periods in which it will use both runways simultaneously, instead of its current
practice of one at a time.
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Manston ‘may close’ if night flight bids rejected
Date added: 19 August, 2011
Manston could shut down if it is not allowed to operate more night flights, according
to chief executive, Charles Buchanan. He said commercial airlines would only use
the site if they could fly early in the morning or late at night. Tory councillors
said Thanet needed the jobs but Labour members said the airport was holding people
to ransom. Opponents are not impressed by the airport trying to frighten its opponents, and the Council,
into submission.
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Kent hopes its airports are selected for extra flights during Olympics
Date added: 14 August, 2011
Three of Kent’s airports (one with only grass runways !) hope they will become
vital transport hubs during the Olympics after being earmarked by Government for
additional use during the Games. Manston, Lydd and Rochester airports will be designated as “temporarily co-ordinated”
for use with additional flights.. Manston hopes for a major increase in traffic during the peak period of the Olympics, as does Lydd
claiming quick transport to Stratford.
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Heathrow named Olympics host airport and may build temporary terminal for it
Date added: 13 August, 2011
Heathrow is considering building a temporary terminal - deconstructed afterwards
- to cope with the additional volumes of passengers and bags during the Olympics.
Perhaps about 80% of all Olympics passengers will travel through the airport. BAA expects August 13, the day after the Olympics closing ceremony, to be its busiest
day next year. On that day, the airport will need to handle some 218,000 bags, 58,000 more than
the day before.
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Biggin Hill airport’s 2012 Olympics expansion plans rejected
Date added: 10 August, 2011
A request to extend the opening hours of Biggin Hill airport for the London Olympics
has been rejected. Airport owner Bromley Council said it had sufficient capacity for the demand
for flights (from 07.30 to 21.00 BST) during the 2012 Games. Biggin Hill Airport Limited wanted to run a number of day-return services. A public consultation on the request received 1,741 responses, of which 1,046
were against the increased operating hours.
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