Up and coming regional airports

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thanks for the news on Euroceltic. I had heard something about these proposed services, but i never get too excited until the plane actually lands ! You read/hear plenty of stories that never come to anything, but i hope this does happen, Waterford has been served before and is popular and a Liverpool-London service is very important.

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Newcastle needs more new routes to start, but there is potential there for major expansion especially in the charter market. Possibly, a runway expansion could be required.

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Exeter is the main hub of British European (BE) and they seem to be investing a lot in new hangers and maintanance facilities at the airport.There are new routes from Exeter to luton with linkair who operate a single 9 seater cessna caravan 406.The fglight goes from exeter-luton-manchester and there are many charter services-Faro,Toronto,Malaga,Crete,Larnaca and many more.
Swansea airport is a new regional airport and is said to be in talks with airlines to operate regional and charter services.

regards saab 2000

Carl727–i have some good news for you,Euro Celtic are supposed to start a liverpool-waterford service in late july and also are looking in to doing a service between liverpool-luton with the fk 27’s,they are also interested in buying ever a bae 146 or a dash 8-300 to replace the fk27.

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LAST EDITED ON 22-07-01 AT 10:09 PM (GMT)[p] There would have to be major construction work done to extend the runway at Sheffield as the runway would either have to be built on a platform at the east end or the airport link road would need a major reroute, even then landing aircraft would only just miss the main road into Sheffield from the M1. At the west end there is probebly even less room before the runway would meet the nearest road.

The best hope they have for increasing the number of flights is if the ex RAF base at Finningley is not turned into an airport because most airlines would prefer to go as there with it longer runway so they could use larger aircaft if passanger numbers increase as Sheffild is limited to aircraft up to BAE`s 146 size.

The public enquiry starts on 25 September into the building of the airport at Finningley lets hope it is quicker than Heathrows terminal 5 as realy need a good airport in this area of the UK

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Just got back from Southampton airport and that was a pretty good regional airport.I counted around 3 BA ERJ 145’s when we arrived,AF atr 72 and an Aurigny,plus the dash 8 of jy (new code BE coming in october)i was in.It is a very attractive and modern airport and i think will see an increase in regional traffic plus charter airlines (JKK,AEA,BY)SOU has good motorway links from all the main towns and cities around the area and so may seem more attractive to people from Reading and Brighton for example than Heathrow.
One last thing,The isle of Wright should have a passenger airport.On the way over i met a woman who was coming from GCI and then had to get a boat from SOU to ther IOW,quite a lot of hastle!!!
regards Saab 2000

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It seems that certain regional airports such as Manchester, Birmingham, Newcastle Glasgow and Edinburgh do very well. The majority of the others have a difficult time getting airlines to show an interest in them as they tend to concentrate on the above. LBA seems tobe doing quite well as is Southampton and Bristol, dont know too much about Cardiff. The smaller airports suffer and many, such as my local LPL have lost a consistant link to the Capital. We are quite lucky here as Easyjet have put faith in the airport, but before this many airlines BA in particular just said there was not enough demand. Easyjet now carry more passengers from LPL to Belfast and Amsterdam than BA does from MAN so I rest my case !

I think its important that that the smaller regionals are helped and develope as it benefits their local areas.

p.s I wonder if the loss of London links to regional airports would be allowed in France?

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Oh and i forgot to mention that Sheffield City need money…very quickly…..with Doncaster setting up as a long haul airport for AIH and BY and JMC and the rest of them.

Sheffield City need money to increase there runway length.

and Wick, Lerwick, Norwich, Teesside, Exeter, Plymouth etc.

They all need help!! we could help as a group on this forum to get airlines interested in these little airports.

Regards Scott