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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:
06.02.12 Heathrow Border controls enquiry increases Olympic queues risk
06.02.12 US flights diverted to Shannon over Heathrow snow
06.02.12 easyJet to make new planes decision this year
06.02.12 Stansted Airport plane emergency
06.02.12 New jobs at Manston Airport
06.02.12 Nigerian air stewardess jailed for cocaine smuggling
06.02.12 Virgin Atlantic recruit new PR boss
05.02.12 Snow causes flight chaos across UK
05.02.12 Airports make carbon reduction pledge
05.02.12 CAA publish airline add-ons price comparison table
05.02.12 Flybe axe Southampton – IOM route
05.02.12 Guernsey Airport could be commercialised
05.02.12 Virgin make staff pay for their own employment checks
05.02.12 Heathrow Holiday Inn upgrade complete
05.02.12 Hong Kong Airline takes delivery of all business class plane for Gatwick service
05.02.12 Oil company takes long term ad at Aberdeen Airport
04.02.12 Ryanair passengers down 6%
04.02.12 IAG passengers up 1.1%
04.02.12 Meetings detail Robin Hood link road plans
04.02.12 Glasgow to get improved Irish links
04.02.12 Ryanair announce new Budapest routes after Malev fails
04.02.12 VisitEngland brief airports on welcoming Olympic visitors
04.02.12 Man admits air rage incident on Heathrow – Aberdeen flight
04.02.12 Charity thanks Luton Airport
03.02.12 Hungary’s Malev stops flying; financial situation ‘unsustainable’
03.02.12 Flybe Glasgow flight emergency
03.02.12 PIA air steward jailed over fake passport find at Heathrow
03.02.12 Adria announce Luton – Ljubljana flights
03.02.12 BAA talks to retailers about new Heathrow terminal
03.02.12 Birmingham Airport opens new kids learning centre
03.02.12 MPs concern over Gatwick hotel jobs offered overseas
03.02.12 Enterprise open branch at Leeds Bradford Airport
03.02.12 Record passengers at East Midlands train station
03.02.12 Cambridge – Jersey flights announced
02.02.12 BAA lose Stansted sale appeal
02.02.12 BMI reaches agreement to sell bmibaby
02.02.12 American Airlines to cut 13,000 jobs
02.02.12 Birmingham Airport night flight policy agreed with council
02.02.12 Gatwick draft masterplan consultation receives lots of responses
02.02.12 easyJet to offer online payment option for businesses
02.02.12 Aer Lingus announce Bournemouth – Dublin flights
02.02.12 AA rosette for Heathrow hotel restaurant
02.02.12 Loganair launch 50th birthday celebrations
02.02.12 Mike Tyson clashes with worker ‘fan’ at Heathrow Airport
01.02.12 Durham Tees Valley could be sold ‘in the next week’
01.02.12 BAA abandon Stansted runway plans; to sell homes
01.02.12 London business group calls for Heathrow expansion
01.02.12 easyJet chairman replies to Stelios claims
01.02.12 IAG reject MPs Scottish routes concerns over BMI takeover
01.02.12 Cardiff Airport included within enterprise zone
01.02.12 Manchester Airport to charge £1 to use trolleys
01.02.12 BA to use new Berlin airport
01.02.12 Southampton Airport Euros not claimed; donated to charity
01.02.12 easyJet fined in French court over card fees and unclear terms
31.01.12 MPs call for OFT to consider BMI takeover
31.01.12 Welsh Assembly to consider ways to boost Cardiff Airport
31.01.12 Strike threat at Birmingham Airport after pay talks break down
31.01.12 Change of responsibility for Gatwick train station
31.01.12 Union takes Liverpool Airport baggage handler dispute to courts
31.01.12 Qatar Airways to operate first Dreamliner from Heathrow
31.01.12 Gatwick parking for £1 a day (when booked with a hotel)
31.01.12 Schoolchildren’s art on display at Manchester Airport
30.01.12 Manchester Airport to get new boss
30.01.12 Ryanair report profits; raise guidance
30.01.12 Qatar Airways to cut Manchester flights
30.01.12 Enterprise Zone status could boost Prestwick Airport
30.01.12 Stelios says easyJet directors could be ‘easily replaced’
30.01.12 Ryanair plans share buybacks and dividends next year
30.01.12 ARINC take over Gatwick self-service check-in support
30.01.12 Exeter Airport support local cancer charity
29.01.12 Council leaders angry over reports Durham Tees Valley Airport may close
29.01.12 Edinburgh Airport bidders will launch major upgrade
29.01.12 Council cancel £50,000 Manston Airport night flight research
29.01.12 Ryanair report record jubilee weekend bookings
29.01.12 Bristol Airport wins business travel award
29.01.12 Blackpool to get summer France flights
29.01.12 Anger over Manchester Airport parking price rise
29.01.12 New restaurant for Heathrow T3
28.01.12 Spanish airline Spanair fails stranding 23,000 passengers
28.01.12 Belfast City Airport could have closed after Ryanair’s exit
28.01.12 London City Airport targets growth
28.01.12 Sight loss charity sues BMI over website failings
28.01.12 Manchester named best UK airport
28.01.12 Drivers walk out at Leeds Bradford Airport taxi firm
28.01.12 New boss for Heathrow Express
28.01.12 Cocaine hidden in chocolate
28.01.12 Superbreak reveal falling demand for Gatwick and Heathrow hotels
27.01.12 Conservative MPs to fight Thames airport plans; report reveals high bird strike risk
27.01.12 easyJet welcome Luton Airport expansion plans; MP says they must pass noise and infrastructure tests
27.01.12 Gatwick wants parking for Superjumbos
27.01.12 RAF Northholt may be sold; become Heathrow satellite
27.01.12 Belgian general strike to hit flights on Monday
27.01.12 Charities gain from Edinburgh Airport drop off parking charge
27.01.12 Heathrow Express receives high passenger ratings
27.01.12 Jet2 wins short haul airline award
26.01.12 Business leaders say UK loosing trade because of poor flight links
26.01.12 Flybe boss expects ‘tough six months’
26.01.12 easyJet passengers and revenues up
26.01.12 Norwich Airport report increased passengers, lower losses
26.01.12 Report questions Manston Airport’s noise claims
26.01.12 Big pay rise for Newquay Airport boss
26.01.12 Ryanair announce three new Bristol routes
26.01.12 World’s biggest black plane lands at Heathrow
26.01.12 JetXtra told to stop selling holidays; remove ATOL badge from website
26.01.12 Award for Heathrow hotel
25.01.12 Conservation group backs Gatwick’s development plans
25.01.12 Heathrow and Gatwick not hit by refinery insolvency
25.01.12 Aberdeen Airport to get £45m upgrades
25.01.12 Qatar Airways open new luxury Heathrow lounge
25.01.12 Public exhibitions to showcase Luton Airport expansion plans
25.01.12 Southampton Airport back activity centre for disabled
25.01.12 Ryanair announce new Budapest routes from Birmingham, Bristol and Stansted
25.01.12 Bruising on man lifted from seat at Stansted contributed to death
24.01.12 MP says ‘forget Boris Island, expand Birmingham’
24.01.12 IAG looking for new long haul airline acquisitions
24.01.12 Heathrow flights to be cut by 20% during Olympics
24.01.12 Stansted has record on track performance
24.01.12 BA to resume flights to Libya
24.01.12 Sheriffs visit Robin Hood to back Vulcan fundraising
24.01.12 bmibaby move Belfast – Amsterdam flight to help football fans
24.01.12 Nintendo 3DS users to get free Wi-Fi access at UK airports
24.01.12 Glasgow Airport get new hi-tech fire engine
23.01.12 Stelios seeks support to block easyJet directors pay
23.01.12 JetXtra told to stop selling tickets by CAA over Jet2 name row
23.01.12 BA roll out first upgraded Boeing 777
23.01.12 Luton Airport confiscate ‘plastic explosive’ marzipan
23.01.12 Free family fund day at Manston Airport
23.01.12 Branson book among the top 10 left on Virgin flights
23.01.12 Thomson use new plane for Exeter Airport flights
23.01.12 BA is most improved brand
22.01.12 GIP considers London City Airport sale
22.01.12 Luton Airport ‘must expand or stagnate’
22.01.12 Car pollution fears if Gatwick Airport expands
22.01.12 East Midlands Airport use video car to target dangerous parking
22.01.12 Mild December boosts highlands airports passengers
22.01.12 New Olympic sculpture at Heathrow
22.01.12 Hippo foot and ivory seized at Cardiff Airport
22.01.12 Flybe announce Birmingham – Waterford flights
22.01.12 Stansted gave over £300,000 to local charities last year
21.01.12 IAG takeover of BMI edges closer as bidders for budget and regional arms found
21.01.12 Walsh doubts Boris Island can be built; BA will not move
21.01.12 Stelios says easyJet board manipulated targets to gain bonuses
21.01.12 Pilot arrested at Bristol Airport after failing breath test
21.01.12 MP wants Government support for Durham Tees Valley – Heathrow flights
21.01.12 Ryanair celebrates passenger milestone; new route at Leeds Bradford
21.01.12 Turkish Airlines to boost Manchester – Istanbul flights
21.01.12 New Gatwick parking discount
21.01.12 29,400 cigarettes seized from woman at Exeter Airport
20.01.12 MPs raise concerns over draft aviation bill
20.01.12 Conservative MPs want Heathrow runway rethink
20.01.12 New passenger panel for CAA
20.01.12 Strike vote for Heathrow Express staff
20.01.12 Glasgow gains new summer French flights
20.01.12 Menzies win Flybe ground handling contracts
20.01.12 Gatwick has enough staff for Olympics
20.01.12 Helicopter emergency at Aberdeen Airport
20.01.12 Manx2 announce IOM – Oxford – Jersey flights
19.01.12 Airlines say Heathrow would close if Thames airport built
19.01.12 Boris says Thames airport could be built in 6 years
19.01.12 Bristol Airport passengers up 0.8%
19.01.12 Liverpool Airport passengers up 4.5%
19.01.12 Residents vow to fight Luton Airport expansion plans
19.01.12 Jet2 tells Humberside’s jetXtra to change its name
19.01.12 RAF plane emergency at Robin Hood Airport
19.01.12 Southampton Airport seek owner of lost Euros
19.01.12 Airport thief jailed
18.01.12 Government consultation on Thames Estuary airport plans
18.01.12 Gatwick passengers up 4.3%
18.01.12 easyJet to base new plane at Newcastle Airport
18.01.12 Plans released for further expansion of Southend Airport
18.01.12 Etihad carry an extra 50,000 passengers via Manchester Airport
18.01.12 Hotel company links with new airline at Humberside Airport
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.
