Newcastle Airport expansion plans scaled back
14.05.09
Newcastle Airport has been forced to scale back its expansion plans because of the recession, MPs were told yesterday. Its plan to expand terminal facilities and build a 360 metre runway extension is now merely a ‘useful document’, rather than realistic plans to be implemented, it said.
The airport has abandoned its hopes of flying 9.5 million passengers by 2016, after they fell by 612,000 to just over five million last year. Yesterday, in written evidence to the Transport Select Committee, Newcastle Airport said: ‘The masterplan remains a useful document in setting out the way in which the airport is likely to expand in due course. But it needs to be reviewed to reflect the current economic downturn and lower passenger growth expectations.’
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