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There is so much going on at UK airports, that it's hard to keep track. And this is where we can help. We scour online and offline news sources every day for news about UK airports. We read the stories and the press releases, pick out the facts, and we post them on this website.
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16.05.12 Passport queues blamed on ‘wrong type of wind’ and lack of staff
16.05.12 Manchester Airport “the next prize” for middle east investors
16.05.12 Video: Damian Green on Heathrow and Stansted border queues
16.05.12 Border Agency boss warns computers 'could crash again'
16.05.12 Airlines and airports back risk-based security
16.05.12 Thames estuary airport ‘would boost London for next 500 years’
16.05.12 BA outlines BMI integration plans
16.05.12 EU to make airlines pay more delayed flight compensation
16.05.12 Stansted Airport border staff levels anger MP Keith Vaz
16.05.12 Cardiff Airport: First minister urges owners to invest or sell
16.05.12 Heathrow queue warning from London First group
16.05.12 No means no! Residents vow to block third runway at Heathrow Airport
16.05.12 Prestwick and Manston airports owner Infratil earnings beat forecast
16.05.12 Rise in lasers shone at pilots
16.05.12 Bond to resume flying today after North Sea helicopter ditching
16.05.12 New budget hotel near Southampton Airport
16.05.12 Students support emergency exercise at Bristol Airport
16.05.12 Extra border staff to be hired for post-Olympics rush
16.05.12 Robin Hood Airport “is A-list venue”
16.05.12 Flybe ends Belfast - Bristol route
16.05.12 Joan Collins tweets in fury at Theresa May over Heathrow hold-up
16.05.12 BA plans service upgrade after customer focus groups
16.05.12 Another slump in passenger numbers at Dundee airport
16.05.12 Axe, sword and knives seized at Belfast international Airport
15.05.12 BAA boss tells ministers Heathrow could be reduced to "local" airport
15.05.12 Welsh government willing to buy stake in Cardiff Airport
15.05.12 Abu Dhabi sets sights on UK airports
15.05.12 Damian Green grilled by MPs over Heathrow
15.05.12 Ryanair calls for urgent sale of Stansted Airport
15.05.12 People caught at airports with cannabis receive 'little more than a telling off'
15.05.12 Tory peers urge ministers to back Heathrow third runway
15.05.12 Alderney Airport seeks autonomy to help manage losses
15.05.12 easyJet to boost Liverpool - Isle of Man services
15.05.12 Aviation blueprint argues against Thames Estuary airport
15.05.12 Very Funny: Flybe takes a swipe at rivals in humorous ad
15.05.12 Border Force denies 'relaxing' e-gates to reduce queues
15.05.12 Heathrow retains top spot as Europe’s busiest airport
15.05.12 Empey seeks guarantee on Northern Ireland’s Heathrow airline slots
15.05.12 Prestwick Airport's concern over wind turbine plans
15.05.12 Flybe brings forward launch of new East Midlands services
15.05.12 Virgin Atlantic CEO: we'll replace BMI flights from Heathrow
15.05.12 200 passengers spend 4 hours stuck on plane at Edinburgh Airport
15.05.12 ‘Support builds’ for new Heathrow rail route
15.05.12 Heathrow unveils new advertising campaign for 2012 Olympics
15.05.12 Wizz announce new Luton – Slovenia
15.05.12 Virgin Atlantic Airways hires Fay Burgin as head of PR
15.05.12 Heathrow CIO pledges seamless future with £1.5bn collaborative system
15.05.12 Qatar to operate Dreamliner from Heathrow from August
15.05.12 'Green flight' app launched by Directflights
14.05.12 Former civil servant Sir John Elvidge to be new Edinburgh Airport Chairman
14.05.12 South Korea airport operator mulls bid for Stansted
14.05.12 Thomas Cook issue stark warning to shareholders
14.05.12 Flybe 'interesting in buying Cimber'
14.05.12 UK Border Agency Heathrow Airport child detention “degrading and disgraceful”
14.05.12 Stelios closes in on Fastjet lift off
14.05.12 Government failure to grasp importance of aviation 'incredible'
14.05.12 Private jet operators limber up for Olympics
14.05.12 Air Nigeria receives new aircraft for Lagos - Gatwick flights
14.05.12 Biggin Hill gets under starter’s orders for Olympics
14.05.12 Leeds Bradford charity paid to ‘take off’ in £200 banger
14.05.12 Business leaders demand upgrade to Sunderland’s congested Newcastle Airport link
14.05.12 Falcon jets approved for steep approaches including London City
14.05.12 Universal prepares Stansted FBO for Olympics
14.05.12 Ocean Sky revamps Luton Airport base
13.05.12 Drop in passengers at Edinburgh Airport amid issues with airlines
13.05.12 MP’s seeks assurances on passport checks
13.05.12 PIA threatened with Heathrow block unless flight punctuality improves
13.05.12 First plane to land at Manchester Airport makes 75th anniversary flight
13.05.12 Cambridge Airport reinstates scheduled flights
13.05.12 Ryanair announce Edinburgh – Szczecin flights
13.05.12 Village to get Bristol Airport bus link
12.05.12 Government has no idea on airports, says IAG chief Willie Walsh
12.05.12 Gatwick passengers down 1.3% despite record load factors
12.05.12 New airlines for Belfast City Airport to replace lost bmibaby routes
12.05.12 MPs to probe immigration delays
12.05.12 Passenger numbers fall again at Southampton airport
12.05.12 Gatwick continues to emerge as Heathrow rival
12.05.12 US Airways in talks with IAG over American Airlines alliance strategy
12.05.12 Gatwick Airport searches 'unjustified'
12.05.12 Edinburgh Airport sees fall in passenger numbers
12.05.12 Stealth charges behind easyJet profits boost will be death of 'low-cost' carriers
12.05.12 Leeds Bradford Airport - Heathrow flights to be restored
12.05.12 BAA blames freight fall on slowdown
12.05.12 Cheap flights: how the add-ons add up
12.05.12 Manston Airport night flights opposed by Thanet Council
12.05.12 BA to launch flights from Heathrow to Leeds, Rotterdam and Zagreb
12.05.12 Aberdeen and Glasgow airports reveal rise in passengers
12.05.12 American Airlines agrees to study merger ideas
12.05.12 easyJet still sees scope for lifestyle deals with pilots
12.05.12 Boris Johnson renews call for Thames estuary airport
12.05.12 Heathrow passengers buoyed by strong travel growth to BRIC states
12.05.12 Thames Airport protesters target London mayor Boris Johnson
12.05.12 MAG share sale ‘would boost council coffers’
12.05.12 Monarch announce new flights from Gatwick / Manchester to Lake Constance
12.05.12 Men who made false bomb threats on flight from Manchester arrested in Tenerife
12.05.12 Virgin first British airline to offer in-flight mobile calls / texts / web
12.05.12 Fly Southend to the USA - it's faster than Gatwick!
12.05.12 Three-quarters of a ton of live corals discovered at Manchester airport
12.05.12 Alpha opens logistics centre at Gatwick for BA
12.05.12 Parked planes over the winter boost Europe's budget airline profits
12.05.12 Man in court over £250,000 cocaine at Heathrow
12.05.12 Pupils design anti-litter posters for Stansted Airport
11.05.12 BAA April passenger figures
11.05.12 Heathrow growth is finished, insists minister
11.05.12 IAG losses increase as fuel prices, weak Spain hurt
11.05.12 Transport secretary admits problems at border controls
11.05.12 Birmingham Airport optimistic of filling bmibaby gaps
11.05.12 Virgin adds fourth daily Heathrow - New York flight
11.05.12 IAG Expects to break even at best in 2012
11.05.12 easyJet boss hints at longer-haul flights from Bristol
11.05.12 Man gives away £1,000 holiday after splitting up with girlfriend
11.05.12 Cargo plane emergency at East Midlands Airport report released
11.05.12 BA steward faces jail over bomb hoax
11.05.12 Campaigners criticise plans for bendy bus route to Bristol Airport
11.05.12 easyJet to stay at Belfast International
11.05.12 Man who tried smuggling cannabis in blow-up doll through Birmingham Airport jailed
11.05.12 easyJet announce Manchester – Basel flights
11.05.12 Action promised on Luton Airport passport queues
11.05.12 easyJet launch Bristol - Naples flights
11.05.12 Bond suspend helicopter flights after North Sea ditching
11.05.12 Man who helped build East Midlands Airport hotel becomes first to marry there
11.05.12 Ryanair Stansted flight forced to turn back after passenger turns aggressive
11.05.12 Lasers causing trouble at East Midlands Airport
11.05.12 Helicopter spun six times in Gloucestershire Airport landing
11.05.12 BA and Manchester Airport unable to fix Concorde's cracked windscreen
11.05.12 Sex attack Gatwick restaurant boss sentenced
10.05.12 Airports play down impact of Border Agency strike
10.05.12 BMI Regional sold by IAG for £8m
10.05.12 Passengers up 3.2% at Manchester Airport
10.05.12 Heathrow queues caused by 'Poor Planning'
10.05.12 Border Agency ‘search white air passengers to balance racial mix'
10.05.12 Luton Airport charged with safety breaches
10.05.12 Heathrow queues criticised in report
10.05.12 Stelios renews assault on easyJet bonuses
10.05.12 US Airways confirm summer Glasgow - Philadelphia flights
10.05.12 Inspector John Vine on 'inefficiency' at Heathrow
10.05.12 bmibaby closure limits flight choice for agents in Midlands
10.05.12 Record April holiday bookings as Britons escape the rain
10.05.12 Viable urge council to buy Plymouth City Airport lease
10.05.12 Durham Tees Valley Airport ‘poised for takeoff’
10.05.12 Work to start on Inverness Airport upgrade
10.05.12 Newcastle airport directors' bonuses case continues
10.05.12 Airlines battle for winter passengers at Leeds Bradford Airport
10.05.12 easyJet estimates CO2 permit costs for 2012 at £7m
10.05.12 BA announce London City – Isle of Man service
10.05.12 MAG boosts Airport City team
10.05.12 Norwich Airport special welcome to new flights to Newquay
10.05.12 BA takes next step in BMI integration; switch BD to BA codes on 9 routes
10.05.12 easyJet seeks to boost Liverpool presence with ‘charter flights’
10.05.12 More Loganair Aberdeen – Sumburgh flights
There is a lot happening at UK airports at the moment. Heathrow airport, the worlds busiest international airport with 69.4 million passengers in 2011, received Government backing for a new runway (and sixth terminal), but this changed in 2010 with the new Government. It has started work on a new Terminal 2 (already closed) that will also replace the current Terminal 1 (still open). Gatwick Airport, the worlds busiest single runway airport (two terminals, but one runway), with 31.35 million passengers in 2010 continues to hope for a new runway in 2020 and was sold in 2009 by BAA to GIP.
These two London airports still dominate in terms of flights and passenger numbers, but regional airports growing at a much faster rate. The two other large London Airports - Stansted Airport and Luton Airport - where the UK's original budget airline started - look set to grow in 2012. Stansted Airport was to be the site the first of the UK's new runways some time after 2013, but it too was blocked by the new Government. Luton Airport scrapped plans for a new runway in 2008.
But it is at the the regional airports - led by Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle and Bristol - where the growth is likely to be much more dramatic, when the economy picks up. These airports were transformed by the emergence budget airlines, all doubling in size over the last 10 years and aiming to double again over the next 10. Whether a return to economic growth will see this resume is doubtful, but Bristol has received permission for a £150m expansion and Birmingham for a runway extension that could cost £120m.
These smaller UK airports are not content with with short haul routes, the larger regionals picking up inter-continental routes too, and many, including Belfast, Cardiff, Leeds Bradford, Liverpool, East Midlands and Southampton have set increasing the number of routes they offer as a key target, even during the current recession.
Then there are smaller UK airports and even new airports looking for routes and local flights to a growing number of UK residents. Many, including Aberdeen, Bournemouth, Durham Tees Valley, Kent, London City, Norwich, Prestwick, Robin Hood have all set 1 million passengers a year as a target. None will achieve it this year, and some my even struggle as Coventry did in 2009.
These are interesting but challenging times for UK airports. Keep up to date with all of the latest developments at uk-airport-news.info.
