Airport News
Below are news items relating to specific airports
Deluge of complaints on night flights since launch of Heathrow report
Date added: 7 February, 2011
Campaign group HACAN has been deluged by complaints about night flights following
the publication of its report two weeks ago. HACAN has released a digest of some
of the emails they received from people outlining how they are disturbed by night
flights, with emails from as far afield as Greenwich and North East London. For those who are woken up by aircraft noise, there is no escape and night flights
have become a regular nightmare or alarm call.
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Olympic cable car ‘at risk from City Airport planes’
Date added: 5 February, 2011
A planned cable car across the River Thames may be unsafe because it goes too
close to London City Airport, Friends of the Earth has warned. It would go through the "public safety zone" around the airport though the docking stations
are not in the PSZ. FoE felt proper consideration had not been given to this problem. The cable car would link 2012 Olympic venues at Greenwich and the Royal Docks
and will carry up to 2,500 passengers an hour.
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High Court initial refusal of legal challenge to Southend Airport plan
Date added: 3 February, 2011
The High Court has refused permission for the Judicial Review being pursued by a member of the local
group, Stop Southend Extension Now (SAEN) against the Southend Council decision
to allow a runway extension. The situation is not as straight-forward as this
makes it sound and the media and airport supporters are under the impression that
it's all over for opponents. The applicants' next stage would be to apply for
an Oral Hearing in the next week.
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Calls for Boris Cable Car route across London City airport PSZ to be scrapped
Date added: 3 February, 2011
Local people around London City Airport have called for Boris Johnson to scrap
his plans for his Cable Car crossing on safety grounds. The Cable Car, which has received planning permission from Newham Council, is
to be built through the London City Airport Public Safety Zone against DFT Guidelines
to the contrary. The Cable Car system which will carry up to 340 people at any one time is at
a higher risk of being involved in an aircraft incident.
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Biggin Hill airport is hopeful of cashing in on an Olympic bonus
Date added: 29 January, 2011
Biggin Hill airport is keen to capitalise on the Olympics, and wants to be a
key gateway partly by increasing its hours so it is open from 6.30am to 11pm
each day from July 13 to September 23. The lease currently permits flights between
6.30am and 10pm in the week and from 9am to 8pm at weekends. Local group BRAAD,
Bromley Residents Against Airport Development, says the longer hours will badly
affect residents and be of no benefit to them.
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Manston airport opens horses facility to cash in on 2012 London Olympics
Date added: 28 January, 2011
Manston airport hopes the world’s top horses could be landing at the airport in the run up to the Olympics. The
airport has started work on a new £250,000 EU equine border inspection post that will open
in April and able to house up to 10 horses. They have offered their services to
the Olympic Committee. It will be licensed for the importation of horses and other animals into the EU. These flights
often climb slowly and noisily to avoid scaring the horses.
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Decision nears on Manston Airport plan to discharge runway waste into the sea
Date added: 28 January, 2011
The EA will make a decision in February on plans to allow drainage of runway
waste into Pegwell Bay. The EA invited residents to view the application made by Infratil, at a meeting in Ramsgate
last week. Infratil plans to install an interceptor tank capable of removing runoff water from the taxiways,
aprons and runway before discharging the waste into the sea. Concerns were raised over glycols (de-icers) which cannot be removed using filtration.
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Report finds ban on Heathrow night flights could benefit the economy by £860 million over 10 years
Date added: 27 January, 2011
A new report has been launched by HACAN, showing that a ban on night flights
arriving at Heathrow before 6am would have a positive effect on the economy. This
would amount to some £860 million over 10 years, from the monetary costs of sleep
disturbance to thousands under flight paths. The report's launch marks the start
of a campaign by HACAN to get a ban on night flights between 11pm and 6am when
the new night flight regime is introduced in 2012.
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Bristol Airport tries out plan for wind turbine – (to cut carbon emissions !)
Date added: 23 January, 2011
Bristol airport has installed a wind turbine. The South West Regional Development Agency provided £39,000 to pay for the project.
At an average wind speed of 5.8 m/s, it is expected to generate enough electricity
in the coming year to make more than 203,000 cups of tea. [Which equates to around
as much energy as that used by 5 passengers making return flights to Geneva.
And the airport had 5.6 million passengers in 2009].
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Southend Airport boss, Alastair Welch, says Court challenges will not stop expansion
Date added: 21 January, 2011
Alastiar Welch gave South Essex Area Forum an update about how work on the airport’s
new terminal building, hotel, railway station and control tower is going. He says
this is forging ahead despite two applications for judicial review of the Southend
decision to allow the runway extension. The airport has also started building
a new link road, which will run be between Eastwoodbury Lane and Nestuda Way,
and will allow for the runway to be extended by 300m.
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