O/T Airport closure

[Brin]

Gutted if this happens. For the people that work there especially, for the airline staff as jobs get squeezed harder etc.

Wizz air pulling out has brought all this on, with only Tui now using the airport it isn't going to be commercially viable to keep it open for passenger flights. There is a six week consultation taking place at the moment but, we all seem to know how they turn out. It's a just going through the motions exercise. Unless someone like Ryan Air step in to fill the slots then I can only see it closing.

Thing I like this airport. Clean, tidy, location being the most important but, I use this airport 3-4 times a year and it's approx 25 minutes from my home. Now I'm looking at East Midlands - M1, Manchester - snake pass, Leeds- don't even mention that place!

As an after thought, considering it's the second longest runway in the UK, you would have thought the Government would step in if only for future emergency security purposes. Then again, they can just commandeer it if need arise.

Yes a very sad state if it goes, levelling up the north/south divide heh.....my arse!

The company that own it, Peel, are looking at a possible large scale manufacturing site or even housing. Considering the land, you're looking at a LOT of houses on there.

[Grist_To_The_Mill]

Gutted if this happens. For the people that work there especially, for the airline staff as jobs get squeezed harder etc.

Wizz air pulling out has brought all this on, with only Tui now using the airport it isn't going to be commercially viable to keep it open for passenger flights. There is a six week consultation taking place at the moment but, we all seem to know how they turn out. It's a just going through the motions exercise. Unless someone like Ryan Air step in to fill the slots then I can only see it closing.

Thing I like this airport. Clean, tidy, location being the most important but, I use this airport 3-4 times a year and it's approx 25 minutes from my home. Now I'm looking at East Midlands - M1, Manchester - snake pass, Leeds- don't even mention that place!

As an after thought, considering it's the second longest runway in the UK, you would have thought the Government would step in if only for future emergency security purposes. Then again, they can just commandeer it if need arise.

Yes a very sad state if it goes, levelling up the north/south divide heh.....my arse!

The company that own it, Peel, are looking at a possible large scale manufacturing site or even housing. Considering the land, you're looking at a LOT of houses on there.

Wasn’t it Peel that closed Sheffield Airport?

[Pattylallacks2]

Wasn’t it Peel that closed Sheffield Airport?

They didn't buy it until 2002, by which time the airport had virtually gone. They made a tidy profit though by selling land for the Sheffield Business Park.