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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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The Latest UK Airport News Stories:
02.07.09 Virgin to axe 600 staff and 10% of flights
02.07.09 BA want mediation on pay dispute
02.07.09 Airport ID cards trials axed
02.07.09 Star 1 launch Stansted – Vilnius flights
02.07.09 Oil worker fined for Aberdeen Airport police abuse
02.07.09 Anger after council leader fails to attend Kent Airport meeting
02.07.09 Robin Hood Airport upgrades check-in area and adds new routes
02.07.09 BA increase some flights, cut others this winter
02.07.09 easyJet announce Manchester – Copenhagen flights
02.07.09 easyJet to sell visitor Oyster cards on Stansted flights
01.07.09 Luton Airport launch new ‘access plan’ (£1 drop off fee)
01.07.09 BA – union talks to resume today
01.07.09 Blackpool Airport closed by staff sickness
01.07.09 Bristol Airport expansion work starts
01.07.09 Lorry stuck under bridge causes Gatwick traffic chaos
01.07.09 Manchester Airport seeks India flights
01.07.09 Monarch to maintain US Airways planes at Birmingham Airport
01.07.09 Rain causes gridlock at Luton Airport
01.07.09 Ryanair release customer service figures
01.07.09 Norwich flight diverted to Gatwick
30.06.09 BA hits staff deal deadline day without agreement
30.06.09 Concerns over Southampton Airport noise plans
30.06.09 Big drop in East Midlands Airport noise complaints
30.06.09 bmi add capacity on Edinburgh / Glasgow flights from Leeds Bradford
30.06.09 BA in talks with oil companies to cut fuel costs
30.06.09 Big winter flights boost from Manchester Airport?
30.06.09 Flybe Gatwick – Dusseldorf flights take off
30.06.09 Flybe launch Leeds Bradford – Gatwick service
30.06.09 BA.com top travel website
30.06.09 Jet2 double Manchester – Tel Aviv flights
29.06.09 Baggage chaos at Heathrow T5 again
29.06.09 Manchester Airport owner faces debt downgrade
29.06.09 Stansted campaigners plan ‘heritage hike’
29.06.09 Corporate jet usage down 80% at Manchester Airport
29.06.09 Coventry Airport seeks new customers
29.06.09 BA add Uganda flights this winter
29.06.09 BA teams up with Dorchester hotel to offer afternoon tea
28.06.09 Ryanair launch 11 new Bristol routes this week
28.06.09 Efly applies to operate Malta - Gatwick route
28.06.09 Manchester Airport road closure
28.06.09 easyJet criticised over insurance opt out
28.06.09 Heathrow T5 to become art gallery
28.06.09 Heathrow survey reveals Queen postcard is top souvenir
27.06.09 easyJet lose Gatwick price rise legal challenge
27.06.09 SkyEurope the first of many to fail this year?
27.06.09 BAA revise forecasts on delayed Gatwick sale
27.06.09 Over 100 routes from Stansted for Ryanair
27.06.09 easyJet announce 3 new Manchester routes
27.06.09 Wind Jet announce Luton – Forli flights
27.06.09 Scottish airports expect busy weekend
27.06.09 Bristol Airport expects busy weekend
26.06.09 Almost 7000 BA staff agree voluntary pay cuts
26.06.09 Iata says airlines slashing fares to fill planes
26.06.09 BAA seeks to make Heathrow ‘Europe’s hub of choice’
26.06.09 easyJet takes advantage of Ryanair website shutdown
26.06.09 Manchester long haul flights ‘use them or lose them’
26.06.09 Heathrow seeks frequent fliers to join consultative committee
26.06.09 Emirates 250,000th Newcastle Airport passenger
26.06.09 New coach service for Gatwick
26.06.09 BAA appoint treasury director
26.06.09 Woman wrapped in cleaning fluid sparks Stansted alert
25.06.09 BA close to deal with main union
25.06.09 Global airlines cut 14m summer flights
25.06.09 Walsh continues to press for staff concessions
25.06.09 Air Malta add Gatwick flights
25.06.09 BA adjusts Heathrow and Gatwick flight schedule this winter
25.06.09 BA ‘value calculator’ – budget airlines not always cheaper
25.06.09 Bristol Airport open pet passenger centre
25.06.09 Continental cut Heathrow – Cleveland flights
25.06.09 OAP claims 4000 cigarettes and 10kg tobacco for personal use
25.06.09 New cheap hotel option at East Midlands Airport
25.06.09 BoE team visit Southampton Airport
24.06.09 Ryanair plans to make passengers carry their own bags
24.06.09 Hounslow council ‘noise free’ Heathrow plan
24.06.09 Ryanair say APD and BAA charges cost airports 4.5m passengers
24.06.09 IOM Airport optimistic on passenger numbers
24.06.09 Reading Council join 2M Heathrow campaign group
24.06.09 Mass protest over ‘unsafe’ plane
24.06.09 Aberdeen Airport seize 13 year old girl’s compasses
24.06.09 Glasgow Airport launch illegal weapons campaign
24.06.09 Flybe add Edinburgh – Shetland flights
23.06.09 Lufthansa agree compromise deal to buy BMI
23.06.09 Indian immigrants allege harassment at UK airports
23.06.09 September launch for BA London City – New York flights
23.06.09 UK taxes ‘force Clickair to raise Heathrow fares’
23.06.09 93% of Leeds Bradford Airport flights on time
23.06.09 Virgin order 10 long haul planes
23.06.09 Germanwings add Manchester – Cologne/Bonn flights
23.06.09 Award for Stansted employment initiative
23.06.09 Dynamic packaging added to ba.com
23.06.09 Norwich – Geneva flights announced
22.06.09 Belfast campaigners step up runway fight
22.06.09 Southampton Airport plan noise monitoring stations
22.06.09 Aurigny founder dies
22.06.09 BA increases South African market share
22.06.09 Thomas Cook, MyTravel and First Choice top for delays
22.06.09 BA pensions row
22.06.09 Hundreds of flights axed this year
22.06.09 BA to sell / close OpenSkies?
21.06.09 Branson says Government should not bail out ‘worthless’ BA
21.06.09 Birmingham Airport plan ‘super terminal’
21.06.09 New Transport Secretary sees demise of short haul flights
21.06.09 New Luton Airport link road opened
21.06.09 Gatwick Airport launch noise plan consultation
21.06.09 Coventry Airport sale update
21.06.09 Fashion outlet mall for Glasgow Airport
21.06.09 New Spa opens as Heathrow T5
20.06.09 Campaigners lose fifth Stansted appeal
20.06.09 Bristol Airport passengers down 16.9%
20.06.09 Hacan say double previous estimate affected by Heathrow noise
20.06.09 Edinburgh Airport targets smugglers
20.06.09 Bikers jailed over Birmingham Airport riot
20.06.09 Southampton Airport launches noise consultation
20.06.09 Thomson top for long haul
20.06.09 Bmibaby announce East Midlands – Prague flights
19.06.09 Bristol Airport expansion ‘reckless and unnecessary’
19.06.09 Luton Airport drop off charge from July 1
19.06.09 New Edinburgh Airport lounge on track for November opening
19.06.09 Continental say transatlantic flights need 10-20% cut
19.06.09 Aircraft engineer fined for air rage
19.06.09 Heathrow launch noise consultation
19.06.09 BA punctuality record
19.06.09 New Hilton Newcastle Airport hotel
19.06.09 BA and BMI near the bottom of lost bags league
19.06.09 Jail for Birmingham Airport drug smuggler
18.06.09 Stansted runway inquiry to be delayed until after election
18.06.09 Passengers evacuated from smoking plane at Edinburgh Airport
18.06.09 BA pilots union agree pay cuts deal
18.06.09 Birmingham Airport taxi dispute goes to court
18.06.09 Brown promises probe into Heathrow campaigners dossier claims
18.06.09 Ryanair Stansted flight hit by lightening
18.06.09 Edinburgh Airport hotel wins award
18.06.09 No UK growth for Ryanair; some cuts planned
18.06.09 Glasgow Airport jet fire man to be detained ‘indefinitely’
18.06.09 Eastern adds more Southampton – Aberdeen flights
17.06.09 BA want staff to work for free
17.06.09 Bristol Airport expansion plans submitted to council
17.06.09 MP: taxpayers could pay for Heathrow runway
17.06.09 SSE launch fifth appeal against Stansted expansion
17.06.09 Aberdeen Airport walkway opened
17.06.09 Facial recognition tests at 10 UK airports
17.06.09 New Manchester Airport hotel set to open
17.06.09 Flybe launch mobile phone recycling scheme
16.06.09 1 in 4 Bristol Airport taxis unfit for the road
16.06.09 Glasgow Airport seeks English passengers
16.06.09 Ryanair website to close for 10 hours
16.06.09 Belfast Airport expects ‘summer bonanza’
16.06.09 Private jet passengers up 44% in May at London City
16.06.09 Newcastle Airport charter flights most punctual
16.06.09 Ryanair and easyJet have different ID rules
16.06.09 DNX get Gatwick marketing account
16.06.09 Goodrich sign BA engine support deal
15.06.09 BAA staff threaten strikes over Ferrovial dividend
15.06.09 Swiss aviation firm to cut 75 jobs at Stansted
15.06.09 Flight punctuality improves on lower capacity and passengers
15.06.09 Bmibaby puts summer 2010 flights on sale
15.06.09 Airport hotel room rates down 20%
There is a lot happening at UK airports at the moment. Heathrow airport, the worlds busiest international airport with 66.9 million passengers in 2008, received Government backing for a new runway (and sixth terminal) and has planning permission for another new terminal called Heathrow East, having only opened Terminal 5 in 2007. Gatwick Airport, the worlds busiest single runway airport (two terminals, but one runway), with 34.2 million passengers in 2008 continues to hope for a new runway in 2020 and is expected to be sold in 2009.
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 - continue to grow at a steady rate. Stansted airport could still be the site the first of the UK's new runways some time after 2013, if it can get planning approval. Luton Airport scrapped plans for a new runway in 2008.
But it is at the the regional airports - led by Manchester, Birmingham (which had a record year in 2008), Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle and Bristol - where the growth has been much more dramatic. These airports have been transformed by the emergence budget airlines, all doubling in size over the last 10 years and aiming to double again over the next 10.
These smaller UK airports are not content with with short haul routes, the larger regionals are now 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.
Then there are smaller UK airports and even new airports adding routes and offering more choice and local flights to a growing number of UK residents. Many, including Aberdeen, Bournemouth, Coventry, Durham Tees Valley, Kent, London City, Norwich, Prestwick, Robin Hood have all set 1 million passengers a year as a realistic target. Some will even achieve it this year.
These are interesting times for UK airports. Keep up to date with all of the latest developments at uk-airport-news.info.
