Airport News
Below are news items relating to specific airports
Biggin Hill Airport Olympic proposals rejected by Bromley Council
Date added: 24 March, 2011
Councillors have thrown out an application from Biggin Hill to extend operating
hours for the Olympics. The airport had requested permission from its landlord Bromley Council to change
the lease so it could open from 6.30am to 11pm each day from July 13 to Sept 23
in 2012. Its current opening hours are 6.30am and 10pm in the week and 9am to 8pm at weekends. The airport also wanted a relaxation of the ban on fare-paying passengers.
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NEWS UPDATE FROM STOP STANSTED EXPANSION
Date added: 17 March, 2011
March news update with stories relating to Stansted.
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Flybe scraps Kent to Manchester route but adds Manston to Belfast City
Date added: 17 March, 2011
Manston airport has lost its flights to Manchester, due to lack of demand. They
have, however, gained a flight to Belfast City Airport, which will run three times
per week. The airport advertises direct flights to: Edinburgh, Belfast City, Jersey,
Dubrovnik, Madeira, Oporto and Verona. Connecting flights to: Orkney and Shetland Isles
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Latest Carlisle Airport plans could end up at public inquiry
Date added: 12 March, 2011
The latest proposals to redevelop Carlisle Airport could be called in for a public
inquiry. Owner Stobart Group wants to resurface the runway and build an air-freight distribution
centre, and they make all sorts of wild claims about jobs to be created. But Carlisle City Council is advertising Stobart’s application as a ‘departure’ from
the local plan, so they will need to be referred to the Government Office NW,
which may call an inquiry - as happened in 2008.
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Air quality under the microscope at Gatwick
Date added: 7 March, 2011
Norman Baker, the Parliamentary Under-secretary of State for Transport, will
be giving the keynote speech at a seminar into air quality - Sussex-air 2011 -
at Gatwick on 11th March. The Sussex Air Quality Partnership (Sussex-air) was set up more than ten years
ago to support Sussex authorities with their duties under the Environment Act
of 1995, and with the implementation of the United Kingdom Air Quality Strategy.
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London City Airport taxpayer policing hits £5.7 million per year
Date added: 5 March, 2011
The Metropolitan Police Service has forecast the cost of policing London City
Airport over the financial year 2010/11 at £5.7 million. This is entirely funded by the taxpayer from the police budget, and police are facing
cuts. City Airport is a privately owned business. Its owners GIP is a Hedge Fund made
up of Credit Suisse and General Electric.They also own Gatwick. Unlike other airports
who pay 70% of policing LCY pay none of their policing bill.
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Lydd airport. Public inquiry evidence on bird strike; Lush, cosmetics and arms dealing
Date added: 4 March, 2011
The Lydd public inquiry got going on 22nd February. The RSPB has been giving
extensive evidence on ornithology, the importance of Dungeness as bird habitat,
and the danger of bird strike -especially close to a nuclear reactor. And Private
Eye has weighed in with insights into the origin of funding from Lush, and the
funding for the airport - allegedly - from arms dealing by Sheikh Fahad al-Athel.
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Gatwick: Is a runway plan stopping golf fairways?
Date added: 3 March, 2011
A year ago, the chairman of owner GAL, Sir David Rowlands, stated publicly that
the company had "not a shred of interest in a 2nd runway". Concerned residents, who have been fighting any such plans for decades, were
further reassured by the coalition Government's opposition. But now a local landowner who has been trying to get consent for a golf course on an
adjacent site, finds the airport objecting at every turn. Doubtless they want
it for a runway.
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Guernsey Airport runway extension plans under fire from opponents
Date added: 2 March, 2011
A report published earlier this month by consultants Mott MacDonald found the
planned improvements to the runway were essential. The £81m project approved by the States includes the reconstruction of the runway
and the extension of the current boundaries to the west. Mott MacDonald also investigated using a collapsible concrete system, called
EMAS and designed to bring an aircraft overrunning the runway to a controlled
halt.
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New video from Transition Heathrow to mark the group’s first birthday
Date added: 1 March, 2011
There is a wonderfully positive and uplifting video from Transition Heathrow, celebrating the first anniversary of their presence on the site. Before the activists arrived the derelict greenhouses were used by the owners
to illegally dump cars and other waste. Grow Heathrow gardeners and local residents
cleared the refuse with council help and carefully restored the greenhouses –
turning the land back into a market garden and community.
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