Airport News
Below are news items relating to specific airports
Gatwick Aviation museum permission refused
Date added: 11 July, 2011
After a hotly argued debate, planning permission has been refused by Mole Valley
District Councl for a new aviation museum in the Green Belt, on the northern boundary
of Gatwick Airport. Reasons for refusal were largely due to the site being in
Metropolitan Green Belt land, as well as the application needing to fellTree Preservation
Order trees, and not meeting various sustainability grounds.
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New briefings from Belfast City Airport Watch on noise and jobs at the airport
Date added: 10 July, 2011
Two new briefings have just been produced by Belfast City Airport Watch. BCAW
says the number of people exposed to ‘significant’ levels of aircraft noise near the
airport has tripled over the past 3 years – and is now higher than at Gatwick
or Stansted. And on jobs they say the airport claim it employs 1,500 people –
but it only employs 90 people driectly, and just makes assumptions about there being 570 jobs created
or induced indirectly by the airport’s activities.
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Fight the Flights (London City) and HACAN to merge with FtF becoming HACAN East London
Date added: 10 July, 2011
HACAN, the organisation which represents residents under the Heathrow flight
paths, and Fight the Flights, which fought the expansion of London City Airport,
are to merge. Fight the Flights will become HACAN East London. The move makes
a lot of sense as both airports affect London in a growing way. These days hundreds
of thousands of residents are affected by flights to and from both airports. The
merger will happen during July.
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Munich Airport to make 3rd runway construction a priority
Date added: 8 July, 2011
Munich Airport plans to urgently push through plans to construct a 3rd runway,
following considerable growth in passenger and cargo volumes in 2010. Passenger numbers grew 6% year-over-year in 2010 to 35 million. Freight was up
27% to 300,000t, marking the largest increase in the 19-year operational history
of the Bavarian hub. The company started the planning process for a new parallel runway to the NE
of the existing two runways in 2005.
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Air Southwest moving Plymouth flights to Cornwall for month – it shuts in December
Date added: 8 July, 2011
Air Southwest flights at Plymouth Airport are to be transferred to Newquay, Cornwall
for a month between 29 July and 29 August. Ground transport will be provided for affected passengers and a timetable will
be provided on the Air Southwest website. The airport, owned by the Sutton Harbour Group, is to close in December. It is
because a military radar service it used from the Plymouth Military Radar Station would
be unavailable during that time.
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Heathrow charge row – BMI says landing charges are unfair
Date added: 8 July, 2011
Heathrow is to face a probe into its charges following complaints from domestic
airline BMI that changes made earlier this year were unfair. The CAA said it would formally investigate complaints that BAA had “unreasonably discriminated”
against UK-focused airlines by making domestic and EU passenger charges equal. BMI also complained landing charges were now being based solely on how noisy
planes are.
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Application for a Certificate of Lawfulness for Dunsfold Aerodrome refused by Waverley Borough Council
Date added: 7 July, 2011
On 6th July, Waverley Borough Council refused the application by Dunsfold Aerodrome
for a Certificate of Lawfulness. The Aerodrome had sought permission to continue with unrestricted flying, with
no limitations, restrictions or conditions on number of aircraft, number of take
offs and landings, type of aircraft (whether fixed wing or rotary civil or military
etc), size or weight of aircraft, freight, duration, period of use etc etc.
A very good outcome.
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UK Ex Principle Planning Inspector tells Public Inquiry that application for Lydd Airport’s expansion should be refused
Date added: 6 July, 2011
The UK’s former Principal Planning Inspector Anthony Bingham, with 50 years experience
in planning and development, told the public inquiry that he had never encountered proposals that were so contrary to so many planning policies
and said ”I urge the Inspector to come to the same conclusion and to recommend
refusal of the application to the Secretary of State”. He showed how the plans
fail to satisfy over 20 specific policies from the Shepway Local Plan
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The UK economy does not need another Heathrow runway or other new runways in the south east
Date added: 28 June, 2011
Responding to a long article in the Times, John Stewart (Chair of HACAN and of
AirportWatch) writes that the Government was right to scrap plans for expansion
at Heathrow. If a third runway had been built, Heathrow would have become the
largest single emitter of greenhouse gases in the UK. In 2009 more people used
London's airports than those of any other city. London is a pre-eminent financial
centre, and Heathrow already has sufficient business passengers and key business
destinations to make these flights profitable. The UK economy is not dependent
on airport expansion in the South East.
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Telegraph says: “Heathrow data shows capacity crisis costing thousands”
Date added: 28 June, 2011
NATS figures show 60% of arrivals into Heathrow are caught up in holding patterns
above the capital, at a massive cost to the economy and great frustration to passengers.
This shows jets circling for a cumulative 55 hours a day are burning 190 tonnes of fuel
and discharging 600 tonnes of CO2 into the skies above London, costing £119,000
in wasted fuel every day. Heathrow currently operates at 98% capacity and accommodates more flights on 2
runways than any other airport.
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