Does any one know what the future holds for Sheffield City Airport as I have heard that airlines have asked to start flying from there but they have been refused!?
What are they planning to do with it as it could easily be a city airport?
And it also has potential eventhough Doncaster is nearby!
By: lbaspotter - 1st January 2006 at 17:17
British Airways Citi Express operated services to Dublin, Belfast and London City with the BAe Jetstream 41’s. They ware also considering Edinburgh and Glasgow but these never meterialised.
Aer Arran also operated Dublin with Shots 360’s, One even Crashed at Sheffield Airport. This Short’s 360 frame is now at Leeds/Bradford as the Fire training frame.
Sabena operated a 2 times daily Brussels service but then went bust. While KLM operated Fokker 50’s 3 times daily to Amsterdam. These flights were moved to East Midlands. But don’t even exsist anymore.
By: Spence_CWL - 1st January 2006 at 16:43
It was doomed as soon as the ideas for DSA started to take off. I can’t remember BRU or AMS services but there were a few in the UK and DUB. Anyway, even when they did fly passenger numbers were pathetic, it was a no hoper from day 1. DSA has definately finished it off now. Stretching west to east that area of north England has LPL, MAN, DSA, LBA, and thats enough, I don’t think it could sustain another commercial airport. The best hope I think it has is becoming a flying academy, and I mean the whole whack, like a centre of excellence. But I don’t see where they’ll get the funding from to set it up, and will it really make a profit?
By: gingerheid - 1st January 2006 at 16:25
I think it’s variously seen flights to London (City?), Belfast, Dublin, Amsterdam and Brussels and ?Isle of Man?.
It won’t stay open as it’s not in the operators interest to make it profitable as an airport.
“5. What would it take for the airport to be retained?
According to the provisions of the lease, provided it can be demonstrated that the airport is sustaining a loss in 2007, the City Council is obliged to allow the transfer of the freehold of the land to Sheffield Business Park Ltd for £1 and allow redevelopment. This derives directly from the original Development Agreement signed by Sheffield Development Corporation in 1995, which transferred to the Council in 1997. That agreement recognised that the development of the airport by the private sector could only be financed if a reversion clause was in place allowing the airport to close and the land redeveloped, if profitable operations could not be attained by the end of a 10 year period. Without the ability to use the land as security, the development of the airport would not have been fundable because of the high risks involved. This process was overseen and expressly approved at the time by the District Valuer and Department for the Environment.
It appears inevitable that the operator will be able to demonstrate that it has been unable to operate the airport profitably by 2007. “
What would you rather have come 2007? A valuable bit of developement land for £1 or another shot at trying to run an airport that can’t take big planes a few miles down the road from DSA?
At a time when air travel in this country seems to be booming I’m sure they could try and attract a couple of small airlines that may or may not last long, so that they could make a 50p a year profit that would stop them from being able to get the land for £1 and make millions… :rolleyes:
By: LBARULES - 1st January 2006 at 16:15
Terrible idea, aren’t they trying to build an industrial estate on it now?
Wasn’t going to be a success, and especially wont be now with DSA!
By: Mark L - 1st January 2006 at 16:11
I think the council are trying to build something on it now. The airport was probably one of the worst commerical ventures in airport construction throughout Europe or even the world in quite some time.
I think at the height of its operations it had a service to Belfast?
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January 1, 2006 at 4:06 pm