Your perfect airport, based airline and freight airline!

Great topic! 😀

Mine:

Surrey International Airport.

4 terminals:

Terminal 1: European and Domestic flights
Terminal 2: International Flights
Terminal 3: Low cost flights
Terminal 4: Cargo Terminal.

[u]TERMINAL ONE[/U]

Operators:

British Airways – Based aircraft: 3×757 (used on EDI(4 times daily) and MAN(2 times daily) routes), 10xA319 (used on EDI(3 times daily), MAN(5 times daily), CDG(3 times daily), ZRH(2 times daily)).
Aer Lingus – Flight operated by: A320 (Daily to Dublin)
British Midland – Based aircraft: 2x F100’s (used on the LBA(4 times daily) and EDI(2 times daily) routes)
Air Portugal – Flights Operated by: A320 (Daily to Lisbon)
Air France – Flights operated by: A320/A319 (3x daily to CDG)
Iberia – Flights Operated by: A320 and 757 (757(2 times daily) to MAD)(A320 to BCN(daily)) – Both Daily.

[U]TERMINAL TWO[[/U]

Operators:

American Airlines – Flights Operated by: 777 (Daily to JFK(2 times daily) and BOS(daily))
British Airways – Based Aircraft: 2×777 (Used on JFK(daily) and IAD(weekly) routes)
Air Canada – Flights Operated by: A330 (Daily to YMX)
JAL – Flights operated by: 777 (Daily to NRT)
British Midland – Based Aircraft: 1xA330 (Weekly to ORD)
Virgin – Based aircraft: 3x A340 (Used on MIA(Weekly), SFO(every other day) and LAX(Daily) routes)

TERMINAL THREE

Operators

Easyjet – Based aircraft: 5×737 (Used on CDG(2 times daily), BCN(2 times daily) and BFS(3 times daily) Routes)
Jet2 – Flights operated by: 737 (Used on AMS(5 times daily) route)

[U]TERMINAL FOUR(CARGO)[/U]

Operators:

JAL Cargo – Flight operated by: 747F (Weekly service)
UPS – Flights by: 757 and 767 (Daily for both)

whats up with excel airways wingsflaps2??

No FR or XLA :rolleyes:

Love it!! 😀

Finally, I might rename the airport Dublin/Manchester (North Wales) Airport and get Ryanair to move its Dublin services there, advertising that “its only a 90 minute fast ferry ride from the Irish capital”!

Likewise!! 😀

Develop RAF Valley into a commercial airport as north Wales is massively underserved by air communications. Air Wales could launch services to Swansea, Cardiff, Amsterdam, London City and Dublin.

Finally, I might rename the airport Dublin/Manchester (North Wales) Airport and get Ryanair to move its Dublin services there, advertising that “its only a 90 minute fast ferry ride from the Irish capital”!

Back in 1993/4, I actually designed an airport for my GCSE design and technology project…..and it was before computers were common place in many homes, so I did it by hand. What fun it was too!!

My airport was called “Salisbury International Airport”, to be built on Salisbury Plains, as I couldn’t think of any other reasonable sized parts of the country to build on in the south of England. Bristol airport would have been closed in order to make it viable and to avoid air traffic congestion. It was to be an alternative to the congested London area and to stop people having to travel to the otherside of the country to fly to a variety of locations. I even gave it its own airport designator code of “SLS”.

The most exotic airline that I had flying there was Ecuatoriana from Quito via somewhere en route using the A310 aircraft.

Most charter airlines from the UK were to fly there and a lot of international and European carriers too.

However, if I had the chance to do it again, my choices would be as follows……..

– – – – – – – – – – – – – – –

Three terminals.
Terminal 1 = European and domestic traffic
Terminal 2 = Charter and low cost traffic
Terminal 3 = Intercontinental traffic

Terminal One

Flybe A319/DHC Q8-400- BHD, GLA, EDI, LBA, NCL, JER, GCI, CDG, TLS, MRS, BOD, SZG, DUB, DND

BMI British Midland/Lufthansa/SAS (codeshare) – BRU, FRA, HAM, BRE, MUC, SXF, NUE, STR, ARN, GOT, OSL, CPH, BLL

British Airways/Iberia/Finnair/Aer Lingus/Swiss (codeshare) – MAD, BCN, AGP, ALC, XRY, SCQ, SVQ, BIO, VLC, HEL, DUB, ORK, SNN, NOC, GVA, ZRH, BSL, LIS, OPO, FAO, ATH, SKG, MLA, FCO, LIN, NAP, VIE, FRA, HAM, MUC, SXF, OSL, CPH, ARN, CDG, BFS, GLA, EDI, NCE, TLS, TIP, AGA, RAK, CAI, LCA, PFO, BUD, OTP, WAW, KRK, PRG, AMS, BRU, RYK, DME, SPU

Terminal Two

easyJet B737NG- BFS, GLA, EDI, NCL, LPL, NWI, MME, PRG, BUD, GVA, ZRH, MUC, SXF, AMS, CPH, LYS, PMI, IBZ, AGP, ALC, BCN, MAD, BIO, FAO, NAP, BGY, PMO, MLA, ATH, LJU

Air Polonia B734- WAW, KRK, POZ

Sky Europe B735- BUD, BTS, PRG

Wizz Air A320- KTW, BUD, RIX, VNO, TLL

Monarch Scheduled – AGP, ALC, FAO, MJV, BCN, GIB, PMI, MAH, IBZ, TFS, TFN, LPA, ACE, HER, CHQ, LCA, PFO, CFU (with a fleet of 5 based A319s)

Monarch Airlines (charter) A320/A321/B757/A330 – AGP, ALC, FAO, REU, GRO, PMI, MAH, IBZ, VCE, ATH, HER, CHQ, LCA, PFO, RHO, SKG, JSI, FNC, LXR, SSH, BJL, GOI, HKT, MLE, MBA, ACE, FUE, TFS, LPA, MIR, MLA, TLS, NCE, SZG, INN, SFB, BGI, GND, CUN, MCO/ TLV etc

Thomas Cook Airlines B757 and A330/ MyTravel B757, A321 and A330/ FlyJet B757/ Astraeus B737 – similar to Monarch destinations.

Terminal Three

American Airlines/ British Airways/ Cathay Pacific/ Qantas (codeshare) – ORD, JFK, EWR, BOS, SFO, LAX, CPT, GIG, EZE, SYD, BNE, DEL, HKG etc

Continental – IAH

Virgin Atlantic – SFO, LAX, EWR, JFK, SIN, HKG

Plus – Emirates/ Air Canada/ Aeroflot/ PIA/ Singapore Airlines/ Air New Zealand/ Delta Airlines/ JAL etc

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Cargo Airlines – UPS and DHL

Airport able to handle A380.

No FR or XLA :rolleyes:

I already have the perfect airport! Schiphol! Well, perhaps it would be nice to move it a bit closer to me. Let’s say somewhere halfway between Arnhem and Doetinchem. That’s far enough for me not to be kept awake by planes, yet close enough to make it easy to get to.

Maybe add some more colourful airlines too. BWIA, Air Tahiti Nui, Air jamaica, AA. And to finish the wish list…. get the Fokker factories back and running!

To add, more tupolevs, yakovlevs, anotonovs and ilyushins!

Lake District International Airport.

Bang in the middle of the Lake District.

All aircraft types and all airlines, cos lets face it: more airlines, more money.

Swindon International Airport

3 terminals
terminal 1 domestic and ireland
terminal 2 europe
terminal 3 rest of world

would have 3 runways

and look like…

You might as well call it Heathrow! 🙂

You just forgot to add a Thai 747 to the list..!!

Good point!! EK would be good for the airport!! In fact, we should close down Liverpool all together!!

Wirral International Airport

1 Terminal

Airlines
Air Atlanta- 1 based 742
Britannia- 1 based 752 and 1 based 763
My Travel- 2 based 321
First Choice- 1 based 320 and 1 based 752
Excel Airways- 1 based 738 and 1 based 752
Thomas Cook- 2 based 752
Monarch- 1 based 321 and 1 based AB6
Flyjet- 1 based 752
Air Scandic- 1 based AB4
Freight
Dragonair Cargo 74F
Cathay Pacific Cargo 74F
China Airlines Cargo 74F

All the usual holiday destinations served, with BY 763 serving long haul destinations. Liverpool can keep Easyjet and Ryanair!!

He he he havent we had a post like this before, i agree with green320 Wirral international Airport would be the best idea 😀 a few more airlines thought
easyJet 737-700 and A319
Ryanair 737-800 only
BMI- A320/321
Bmibaby 737
FlyBE Dash Q400 and BAe146
Emerates A330
KLM F100/737-900
Iberia A321
😀

Yep!! I forgot to mentio on mine that all foreign charter airlines in Europe also use my airport!! And it would have a decent viewing park right by the runway!!

cool, let’s knock all the airports down with bad viewing areas and start our own! LOL

Wirral International Airport

1 Terminal

Airlines
Air Atlanta- 1 based 742
Britannia- 1 based 752 and 1 based 763
My Travel- 2 based 321
First Choice- 1 based 320 and 1 based 752
Excel Airways- 1 based 738 and 1 based 752
Thomas Cook- 2 based 752
Monarch- 1 based 321 and 1 based AB6
Flyjet- 1 based 752
Air Scandic- 1 based AB4
Freight
Dragonair Cargo 74F
Cathay Pacific Cargo 74F
China Airlines Cargo 74F

All the usual holiday destinations served, with BY 763 serving long haul destinations. Liverpool can keep Easyjet and Ryanair!!

Swindon International Airport

3 terminals
terminal 1 domestic and ireland
terminal 2 europe
terminal 3 rest of world

would have 3 runways

and look like los angeles/lax and amsterdam

easyjet and virgin atlantic based here
freight based airline : fed ex

airlines:
Virgin Atlantic – los angeles,lasvegas,newyork jfk,miami,orlando,sanfrancisco,newerk,hongkong,sydney,shanghai,delhi,grenada,barbados,capetown,johanasburg,lagos,boston,kualalumpar,antigua,port haracot,washington,singapore,tobago,tokyo,st lucia,lyon
fleet based: 8x a340-600 10x 747-400 5x a340

easyjet –
Aberdeen,Alicante,Amsterdam,Athens,Barcelona,Basel,Belfast,Berlin,Bilbao,Bologna,Budapest,Cologne,Copenhagen,Dortmund,Edinburgh,Faro,Geneva,Glasgow,Ibiza,Inverness,Liverpool,Ljubljana,London Gatwick,LondonStansted,Lyon,Madrid,Malaga,Marseille,Milan,Munich,Naples,Newcastle,Nice,Nottingham East Midlands,Palma,Paris Charles de Gaulle,Paris Orly,Prague,Rimini,Rome,Toulouse,Venice,Zurich
fleet based: 27x 737-700 17x a319

British Airways -paris,nice,lyon,zurich,lisbon,madrid,barcelona,majorca,ibiza,athens,lanarca,frankfurt,munich,copenhagen,oslo, manchester,dublin,belfast,edinburgh,glasgow,jersey,cairo,middle east,bangkok,delhi,singapore,beijing,hongkong,southafrica,tokyo,sydney,aukland,usa
fleet based: 5x a320,7x 747-400,6x 757,7x 777

virgin express – amsterdam,brussels,paris,nice,madrid,majorca
fleet based: 2x 737-400

air france paris,nice,lyon,bordoux,tolouse
fleet based: 2x a320 2x 737-300 1x 757

northwest – washington,hawaii,losangeles,sanfrancisco,dalas,newyork jfk,miami,chicago,denver,philidelphia,san diego,houston,detroit
fleet based: 2x a330-300 2x dc10 2x 747-400

us airways – pitsburg,philidelphia,charlotte,newyork
fleet based: 2×767-200

continental – atlanta,miami,newyork jfk,newerk,chicago,sanfrancisco,philidelphia,dallas,los angeles,sandiego,hawaii
fleet based: 3x 777-200 2x 767-400 1x 757

delta – atlanta,newyork
jfk,miami,orlando,chicago,lax,sanfrancisco,denver,houston,boston
fleet based 3x 777 2x 767-400 1x 767-300

american airways – washington,hawaii,losangeles,sanfrancisco,dalas,newyork jfk,miami,chicago,denver,philidelphia,sandiego,houston,boston
fleet based: 4x 777-200 3x 767-300 1x 757

EAL european air charter – orlando sanford,miami,lasvegas,majorca,menorca,salzburg
fleet based: 3x 747-200 1x 737-200

my travel – usa,mexico,dominican republic,spain,greece,turkey,thailand,africa
fleet based 2x a330 1x 767 2x 757 3x a320

thomas cook – usa,mexico,dominican republic,spain,greece,africa,thailand,turkey
fleet based: 3x a330-200 4 a320 3x 757

britannia – spain,greece,florida,mexico,tunisia
fleet based:3x 757 2x 767

lufthansa – frankfurt,cologne,munich,dussledorf
fleet based: 1x a320 1x 737-300

germanwings – cologne,dussledorf
fleet based:1x a320

spanair – madrid,palma,barcelona,bilbao
fleet based: 2x md83 1x a320

alitalia – milan,rome,cagliari,naples,venice,olbia
fleet based: 2x a321 1x 767

quantas – sydney,melbourne,perth all via singapore/bangkok
fleet based: 3x 747-400

air new zealand – aukland via lax,christchurch via aukland
fleet based: 1x 747-400 1x 767-300

sas – copenhagen,oslo
fleet based: 1x a320

flybe – jersey,alicante,faro,palma,paris,milan,dublin,edinburgh,prague,mercia
fleet based: 4x bae146 5x dash8q400

bmi – amsterdam,paris,washington
d.c,toronto,chicago,manchester,faro,dublin,glasgow,edinburgh,leeds,jesey,palma,frankfurt,copenhagen
fleet based: 3x a320 2x a330-200 2x a321

japan airlines – tokyo,hiroshima,osaka
fleet based: 2x 747-400 1x 777-200

klm – amsterdam,rotterdam
fleet based: 1x 767 1x 777

iberia – madrid,barcelona,tenerife,bilbao,alicante
fleet based: 1x 757 1x a340-600

varig – rio di janiro,sao paulo
fleet based: 1x md11

south african – johanasburg,capetown
fleet based: 1x 747-400 1x a340-600

emirates – dubai,melbourne,sydney
fleet based: 2x 777-300

gulf air – bahrain
fleet based: 1x a340-300

air india – delhi
fleet based: 1x 747-400

china eastern airways – beijing,shanghai,guangzhu
fleet based: 1x a340-600 1x a340-300

air canada – toronto,vancouver via halifax,montreal
fleet based: 1x 767-300er 1x 747-400 1x a330-300

aeroflot – moscow,st petersburg
fleet based: 1x 767 1x a320

malev – budapest
fleet based: 1x 737-500

olympic airways – athens
fleet based: 1x a320

cyprus airways – lanarca,paphos
fleet based: 1x a330

aer lingus – dublin,cork
fleet based: 1x a320

monarch – majorca,menorca,ibiza,greece,florida
fleet based: 2x 757 1x a330

swiss international – zurich,basel,geneva, hongkong,los angeles
fleet based: 1x a319 1x a330

cathay pacific – hong kong
fleet based: 1x a340-600 1x 747-400

finnair – finland
fleet based: 2x a320

tap – lisbon,porto
fleet based: 1x a340 1x a320

Air Jamaica montego bay, kingston
fleet based: 1x a340

freight:
cathay pacific 2x 747-400f
fedex 3x md11f
dhl 2x 757f
cargolux 3x 747-400f

I don’t know what I’d call it.
I’d call it a Skyharbor instead of an airport though, sounds better. 🙂
It would have most the major European airlines:

BA- domestic and Euro services only.
BMI- domestic, Euro and a couple of US services.
VS- MCO
easyJet- services connecting up all their other major UK and Euro bases.

and all the others flying to their respective countries capitals:

CSA
AF- NCE aswell as CDG
KLM
EI
SAS- CPH, ARN, OSL
Alitalia- both MXP and FCO
Luxair
Finnair
LOT
Iberia- Barcelona aswell as MAD
TAP
Lufthansa- FRA and MUC aswell
Olympic
Malev

Germanwings- Cologne, Stuttgart

and other major airlines from around the world:

AC- YYZ, YVR
AA- JFK, ORD
UA- SFO, Dulles
CO- EWR
DL- ATL

SAA- Johannesburg
EK
Varig- Rio
JAL- Tokyo
Qantas- SYD, MEL
Aeroflot
Cathy- HKG

and summer and winter charters from the major airlines tied to an travel company i.e not independant. So,

First Choice
Britannia
Mytravel
Thomas Cook
…..

they would fly all over from Majorca etc. to the Caribbean.

Their would be a few cargo airlines, similar to the cargo at STN.

The airport would be similiar in style to Kuala Lumper(exterior) and Denver(interior), what amazing airports they look like!

KUL:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/406611/M/
http://www.airliners.net/open.file/190286/M/

DEN:

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/189197/M/

That should cover it!! 😮 😉