Airport News
Below are news items relating to specific airports
Dismay as Judge allows Newham green light to London City Airport expansion
Date added: 20 January, 2011
A High Court judge has refused to overturn Newham Council’s decision to expand
London City Airport. Campaigners are now considering an appeal. Residents, represented by FoE’s Rights and Justice Centre, took the council to
court in Novemberafter it decided to allow a 50% increase in flights. Fight the
Flights argued that Newham Council failed to consider changes to Government policy
on climate change and did not properly consult boroughs and residents in the surrounding
area.
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Edinburgh Airport pulls back on expansion plans in its draft Master Plan
Date added: 18 January, 2011
Edinburgh airport has launched its draft Master Plan, with enormous growth forecasts,
but slightly lower than previous estimates. BAA hopes passenger numbers will increase
from 8.6 million in 2010 to 13 million by 2020 (it originally hoped by 2013) and
to 20.5 million by 2040. And that air transport movements will grow from 100,592
in 2010 to 141,300 by 2020. BAA says no 2nd runway will be required, but it needs
new aircraft hangars and stands.
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London mayor Boris Johnson backs call for hub airport
Date added: 18 January, 2011
Boris Johnson has backed a report calling for a new airport in SE England. Overseen by Daniel Moylan, deputy chairman of TfL, it claims the economy will
suffer and jobs lost to European competitors without a hub airport. And that in
terms of destinations served, Heathrow had fallen from 2nd in 1990 to 7th in 2010.
Boris said for London to remain at the centre of global business "we need aviation
links that will allow us to compete with our rivals". (BBC)
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BMI reviews UK domestic flights at Heathrow – substitute more polluting long haul instead
Date added: 16 January, 2011
BMI is cutting Manchester flights from 6 daily to 4 and is considering closing its loss-making
Glasgow route. It follows a series of price rises at Heathrow that have dented the profitability
of small planes and shorter flights. Route closures would hand BA a monopoly on
some domestic routes. However, BMI will use slots created by domestic cutbacks
for more lucrative international routes instead - which produce far higher carbon
emissions per flight.
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Boris Johnson ‘opposing government airport policy’ on new hub airport
Date added: 16 January, 2011
John Stewart, of Hacan ClearSkies, (and Chair of AirportWatch) has warned that
London mayor Boris Johnson is on a "collision course" with the government over
airport expansion. The government scrapped plans for a 3rd runway and 6th terminal at Heathrow when
it took office in May. But Mr Stewart said he was told about a new report on plans for a new hub airport,
due to be released in a report on Tuesday 18th, by the mayor's aviation adviser.
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£15m growth fund boost for Birmingham Airport runway plans
Date added: 14 January, 2011
A new Gov Regional Growth Fund for economic development could contribute £15
million to start the airport’s runway extension. Councils and business leaders in charge of the Birmingham-Solihull Local Enterprise Partnership want
the RGF to meet almost half the £32 million cost of diverting the A45 Coventry
Road to enable the 350-metre runway extension to be built. Uncertainty about how the road diversion will be paid for is holding back the
runway project.
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Stansted flights in 2010 hit 10 year low – and worse is to come
Date added: 12 January, 2011
Flights in and out of Stansted in 2010 hit a 10 year low, which has prompted
Stop Stansted Expansion to reiterate its call for BAA to commit to a long term
moratorium on a 2nd runway. The airport handled 143,335 commercial flights compared to 146,500 in 2000. The
number of passengers continued to decline, dropping 7% last year to 18.6 million
passengers compared to 20.0 m in 2009. BAA expects tolose another million travellers
in 2011, down to 17.6m. (SSE)
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Air Southwest’s Gatwick-Plymouth air route to close
Date added: 10 January, 2011
Plymouth is to lose its air link to Gatwick after Air Southwest announced closure
of the loss-making route. Air Southwest’s flights, which operate from Plymouth via Newquay (which is further
from Gatwick than Plymouth), will cease on February 1. The decision follows the
takeover of Air Southwest by Humberside-based Eastern Airways in September.
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The Co-operative Bank; good with money or fantastic for aviation?
Date added: 10 January, 2011
Environmentalists have been angered by the news that the Cooperative Bank has
taken part in a refinancing deal for the development of Manchester Airport. The
bank will provide £40 million over the next 5 years to MAG despite its much-vaunted
‘Ethical Investments Policy’ which includes mitigating the threat of climate change
and a policy of opposing development of runways. The airport is responsible for around 5 m tonnes of CO2 emissions per year. (SEMA)
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West of England Local Enterprise Partnership interim board appointed
Date added: 8 January, 2011
Some of the region’s leading business people will be helping to drive forward
the newly formed West of England Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP). These include Katherine Bennett OBE, vice president and head of political affairs at Airbus,
and Robert Sinclair, chief executive of Bristol Airport among others, who will
represent business on an interim board for the LEP, following it’s formation.
One sector mentioned as vital for the region's economy is aerospace.
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