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Airport News

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Doncaster Robin Hood airport wants change in planning rules to get more business

Date added: 7 January, 2011

DEVELOPERS want planning rules to be relaxed in a bid to significantly expand Robin Hood Airport's business park.   Peel Investments Ltd is asking for regulations which only allow airport-related businesses to be located on the site to be waived in a bid to attract more businesses.     The details are included in planning applications the firm has submitted to Doncaster Council.

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Jet2 to pick up their own baggage at Blackpool

Date added: 7 January, 2011

Jet2 recently  won a High Court battle with Blackpool  airport after bosses there said they wouldn't cater for late night or early morning flights.   Jet2 will now take over check-in desks and baggage handling operations to secure its future at the airport. Jet2 staff will now greet passengers, check them in and carry out airside roles. Jet2 now employs over 60 staff at the airport  and plans to take on a further 10 over the busy summer season.

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Manchester Airports Group seals £280m refinancing

Date added: 6 January, 2011

MAG has completed a £280m five-year refinancing.   MAG, which owns Manchester, East Midlands, Bournemouth and Humberside Airports, has agreed terms with  7 major lenders ahead of July - when its present facility was due to expire. Existing bankers Barclays the Co-operative Bank, Handelsbanken and RBS have been joined by Yorkshire Bank, Santander and   HSBC. Projects include resurfacing Runway 1 at Manchester and a terminal upgrade

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Theresa Villiers finds in favour of Wycombe Air Park Action Group to “specify” the airfield

Date added: 4 January, 2011

Theresa Villiers has agreed to take the first steps to ‘specify’ Wycombe Air Park (WAP), in response to the application made by Wycombe Air Park Action Group. Specification will mean the CAA is granted additional powers to control activity at the airfield. WAPAG has been fighting for several years to persuade WAP’s management to change its operations to limit noise nuisance, and to improve consultation. This is the first ever specification by the CAA.

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Losses doubled in 2010 to £26 million at Peel Airports

Date added: 4 January, 2011

Peel Airports, which runs Liverpool John Lennon, Robin Hood Airport and Durham Tees Valley Airport, saw losses double to £26m last year. In the year to March Peel's pre-tax losses rose sharply while turnover fell 18% to £41m. The business finished the year with a gross profit of £18m but administrative expenses grew by 8% to £29.5m and an impairment related to fixed assets cost £7.1m. In June they sold a 65% stake to Vancouver Airport Services.

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Ryanair adds cheap flights from Doncaster to Faro and Tenerife

Date added: 4 January, 2011

Ryanair already has flights from Doncaster to Alicante, but from March adds flights twice a week to Faro, and from February also to Tenerife.

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Carlisle airport application hopes for 200,000 passengers by 2025 and 5 return flights per day

Date added: 3 January, 2011

Owners of Carlisle airport, Stobart Group, have put in a planning application to resurface the runway and build a 394,000sq ft air-freight distribution centre. It claims this would create the equivalent of 156 full-time jobs and safeguard 73 existing jobs. There would be flights to Southend. The application warns that the airport is not viable without redevelopment. Stobart say that if they don't get their application, they will move outside Cumbria. (News & Star)

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Airports, glycols in de-icing liquids and Heathrow local water pollution

Date added: 2 January, 2011

There are two main water pollutants arising from the Heathrow site, glycol used for de/anti-icing activities and hydrocarbons from oil and fuel. On 15th December, before the heavy snow on 17th and 18th which closed the airport for several days, that " Heathrow  had  500,000 litres of de-icing fluid at their disposal." But the de-icing chemicals are not without their environmental problems, and if allowed to enter ground water or water courses, exert levels of  biological oxygen demand (BOD).

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Boris Goes After Royal Family but Not London City Airport for Policing Bill

Date added: 1 January, 2011

Boris Johnson will attempt to claim back the estimated £5 million cost of policing the royal wedding from the Government. The Met police is in financial dire straits, with a £30.4 million cut in its Home Office grant this year having resulted in a freeze in officer recruitment and the loss of 955 posts. But London City airport security cost in 2004/05 was £2 million, £5.3 million in 2006/07, £5.5 million in 2007/08 and £5.6 million for 2008/9.

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Calls again for Kent airport at Hoo by John Olsen etc

Date added: 29 December, 2010

A group of former aviation industry executives, led by John Olsen (former commercial director of Cathay Pacific and ex-head of failed airline Dan-Air) is urging the government to look again at proposals for a £14bn three-runway, 24-hour-a-day hub airport on the Hoo peninsula. They believe an airport at Hoo would be more practical and chepaer than Boris Johnson’s idea of an island airport in the Thames estuary. They dismiss the bird arguments against.

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