Airport News
Below are news items relating to specific airports
Birmingham Airport announces plans to merge two terminals
Date added: 20 January, 2010
Birmingham Airport has announced plans to merge its 2 terminals as passenger
numbers fell by 5.5% compared to 2008. The airport said it will invest £13m in the new facility in a bid to improve
its passenger flows and operational efficiency as well as creating larger areas. This scheme is in addition to another £1.5m project to merge the current four
control rooms which will be operational at the beginning of March.
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Southend Airport plan: Government intervenes with Article 14 Direction
Date added: 19 January, 2010
The runway extension at Southend Airport will not now go ahead without the authorisation of a Government minister. Communities Secretary, John Denham, has issued an Article 14 Direction about the application to extend the runway. The effect of the direction is to prevent Southend Council granting planning permission without his authorisation. It will still be considered at Development Control Committee on 20th. (Southend Standard)
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Boris backs call for public review of controversial new City Airport flight path
Date added: 19 January, 2010
At a packed meeting in Ilford on 18th the London Mayor Boris Johnson backed calls
for a public review of the controversial new London City Airport flight path introduced
last year. The CAA will review the flight path later this year but local residents
fear it will be carried out in private. MPs and local authorities have been inundated
with complaints from residents since the introduction of the new flight path.
(FtF)
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Lydd Airport – New Flight Paths
Date added: 19 January, 2010
Since the publication of the Shepway District Officer’s Report on July 1st, 2009, the CAA has approved new instrument approach procedures for Lydd Airport. This is material new evidence. The new flight paths will bring noise to more
people. LAAG believes the planning application’s determination should be delayed
until the impact of these flight paths has been evaluated. There are now instrument approach procedures for both runways.
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Traffic at Frankfurt Airport Continues to Climb in December
Date added: 15 January, 2010
For the whole of 2009, passengers were down -4.7% on 2008, and air freight down
10.1%. ATMs were down -4.7%. In December, figures were higher. There was an increase
of 2.3% in passengers (to over 3.8 million) in December, compared to Dec 2008.
Rising by 6.3%, intercontinental traffic again was the major growth driver in
the passenger business. Air cargo was up 29% on December 2008, with Dec 13th
the second busiest ever day for freight.
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Commission approves public support for Vaasa regional airport in Finland
Date added: 13 January, 2010
The European Commission decided today not to raise any objections to Finland's plan to support infrastructure investments in Vaasa regional airport. The total amount of public financing will amount up to three million euros. They want cargo handling facilities there. There is EC guidance on when such support can be given. (Europa)
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London mayor repeatedly snubbed Kent’s leaders over ‘Boris Island’ airport
Date added: 13 January, 2010
Leaders in Kent County Council feel they have been repeatedly snubbed by Boris
Johnson, over the proposed airport. Correspondence reveals Boris has fobbed off
successive please to discuss the issue despite its potential huge impact on Kent.
Letters have been released under FoI. The leader of KCC asked Theresa Villiers
to broker a meeting, but even that failed. The leader of Medway Council has also
been snubbed.
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Stansted: BAA needs to smell the coffee
Date added: 12 January, 2010
BAA's 2009 figures make a mockery of their claim to urgently need planning approval for a 2nd runway. The full year figures show Stansted handled fewer than 20 million passengers
last year, the lowest annual total for 6 years. There was an even sharper decline
in the number of flights. 2009's total of 156,242 made it Stansted's quietest
year since 2002. But BAA bizarrely still insists on continuing with its current planning application
and wildly optimistic future passenger estimates.
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Durham Tees Valley to cut operating hours and jobs after 53% drop in passengers in 2009
Date added: 10 January, 2010
Durham Tees Valley Airport is cutting staff and operating hours passengers collapsed
by 53% last year to 306,323 due to the economic downturn. Peel Group Holdings
said the moves were needed to ‘create financial stability’ in the current tough
economic times for the aviation industry. The airport will close overnight. Up
to 32 jobs would go with the remaining 143 staff being trained to do additional
jobs. (UK Airport News)
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New talks on Robin Hood Airport night flight plans
Date added: 8 January, 2010
New talks will be held over proposals to loosen restrictions on night flying,
after the airport re-submitted a consultation document to Doncaster Council’s
planning department to modify the night flying restrictions imposed on them this
week. Peel Airports has submitted revised consultation documents that replace
the documents put forward in January last year. Currently a ban exists on QC4 aircraft flying in and out of the airport at night.
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