BA to shift cargo operations to Kent Airport?
27.02.09
A senior Kent politician has name British Airways as the mystery firm set to move into Kent Airport (Manston), according to local press reports. This would free up slots at Heathrow, and Kent does have a big runway and hardly any flights, so it has a plausibility.
Thanet council called an emergency meeting last month to change regulations of Kent Airport's night flights in the belief that a new freight operator was about to relocate there. Despite widespread speculation that British Airways World Cargo was the firm set to move in, no formal announcement has since been made.
But in a meeting last week, Canterbury City Council leader John Gilbey said: ‘My understanding is that Kent International Airport has been approached to relocate a long haul international freight operation to Manston from its existing base.'
‘Infratil have therefore been asked to facilitate the relocation of this company to Manston and secondly confirm that they will be able to operate between the hours of 06:00 and 23:30.’
He later confirmed he believed the company in question is BA. An airport spokesman said he did not know how Councillor Gilbey had come by the information and refused to disclose who the operator would be until the deal had been finalised.
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