Oxford Airport reports busiest weekend to date
12.07.11
Oxford Airport handled over 100 commercial movements last weekend, its busiest ever two days on record for both business aviation and scheduled traffic. The sunny weather, the Henley Regatta and a number of local celebrity functions, including Kate Moss’ wedding, all contributed to a doubling of normal weekend business aviation activity at the airport.
Gulfstreams, Globals and chartered planes filled the ramp in what was a useful trial run before next year’s Olympics. Oxford would normally expect to handle around 20 business aviation movements per day.
July is likely to be the year’s peak month for Oxford with the Silverstone Grand Prix traffic and then the CLA Game Fair later in the month, which will bring in an anticipated 140,000 visitors just a mile up the road at Blenheim Palace. Typically 50 ‘Flying Farmers’ and other grand estate owners fly in for the event.
Regular charter flights to Jersey which commenced at the end of May are consistently recording very high load factors.
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