Airport News
Below are news items relating to specific airports
Liverpool John Lennon Airport director Andy Gower leaves company
Date added: 9 August, 2011
Airport director, Andy Gower, has left his role with the company, and Peel Airports
said they hope to have a new director by September. The Chief Executive said "Andy has left us, it was time for him to move on. It was purely his decision and we leave on amicable terms." Mr Gower was unavailable for comment on the reasons for his departure from the
Speke base. The news comes amid a background of pay disputes and possible strike action.
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Report shows Manchester Airport is the ‘wrong place’ for an enterprise zone
Date added: 9 August, 2011
A new report from CPRE shows the Manchester Airport enterprise zone will undermine
attempts at economic regeneration in other parts of the city. The research hits
out at the Government’s decision to locate Greater Manchester’s enterprise zone
(one of the first 4 "vanguard" enterprise zones announced in March) at Manchester
Airport, saying the site is the "wrong" place for a zone. Areas other than the
airport have more need for investment.
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Southend: SAEN agrees with Council – money was wasted because Council ignored opposition to runway extension
Date added: 8 August, 2011
SAEN has learned that Southend Borough Council is publishing their legal costs in defending their decision to permit the runway extension. SAEN has also had
to spend tens of thousands of pounds on the legal action and agree with them that
it is a waste of money. Had the Council taken any notice of the consultations on both the Joint Area
Action Plan for the airport and the planning application for this damaging scheme,
they could have avoided the cost.
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Blackpool Airport fury over permission for 73 homes that would block its growth
Date added: 5 August, 2011
The airport has slammed Fylde council for failing to properly consider the detrimental
impact a new housing development could have on the region’s economy. In an unusual step Fylde councillors could be asked to reconsider granting approval
for 73 homes on the former Pontins site amid fears it will hamper the airport’s
ability to grow. The airport remains adamant some of the proposed 73 homes will
be affected by an increase in noise levels.
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Birmingham Airport increases profits 8-fold last year, after cost-cutting
Date added: 5 August, 2011
Cost-cutting helped the airport to post an 8-fold increase in profits last year
– but its chief executive warned its long-term health is reliant on the region’s
economy. Birmingham Airport Holdings saw after-tax profits rise from £592,000 last year
to £5.28 million in the 12 months to March 31 despite revenue falling by 0.8%
to £103.3 million. Employee costs were reduced by more than 11%, with number of people working at the airport reduced by 75.
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Thames airport plan slammed by leader of Medway Council
Date added: 3 August, 2011
Councillor Rodney Chambers said the idea to build an airport on the Isle of Grain
was “the daftest in a long list of pie in the sky schemes that have been put forward”. Norman Fosters’ recently announced proposals are for The Thames Hub, a project
which would bring together rail freight connections between the UK’s main sea
ports, a 150 million passenger airport to replace Heathrow, a tidal energy barrage
and a new flood protection barrier.
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Edinburgh Airport Chief Executive resigns after year in post – replaced by Jim O’Sullivan
Date added: 3 August, 2011
Kevin Brown is starting a new job next month as chief executive officer at North
Queensland Airport Group, which is based in Cairns. BAA said Mr Brown was leaving
a "healthy airport" and that Jim O'Sullivan, who currently works at Heathrow, has been appointed to take
over at the helm of Edinburgh Airport on 1 September. Mr O'Sullivan is currently BAA technical standards and assurance director.
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Lord Foster says giant airport in Kent on the Isle of Grain would improve life… ‘for Londoners’
Date added: 2 August, 2011
Lord Foster says his controversial plan to build the world's biggest airport
on Kent's Hoo Peninsula would "improve the quality of life for Londoners". Local politicians and environment campaigners claim the plan would be a disaster
for Kent and is "pie in the sky". Lord Foster's proposal is to build a giant four-runway airport which could handle
150 million passengers a year, and says his proposals are far from future fantasy, and are essential.
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New Heathrow flight plan is in for bumpy ride – may be more day flights and less night flights
Date added: 1 August, 2011
Plans for more flights during the day have met with mixed reactions from both
residents and Hounslow council. Heathrow currently uses a runway alternation system, whereby one runway is used
for arrivals and the other for departures, reversed during the day to give residents
a break from the noise. New proposals suggest increasing the number of daytime flights by using runways
for both takeoffs and landings when needed, instead of just one way.
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Four jobs to go at Manston Airport which needs to save £350,000
Date added: 28 July, 2011
Four jobs are to go at Manston in a cost-cutting programme. The airport, owned by Infratil, has been losing money on its operations and needed
to cut costs to give it a more secure future. It has identified savings of more than £350,000 that can be made, including the 4
roles. The airport is striving to get airlines to fly from there, and there is
a paper-thin hope of "Flyinvicta" which does not yet even exist, flying to New York.
Talk about grasping at straws.
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