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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:
18.11.08 easyJet profits down 47%
18.11.08 Stelios refuses to sign off easyJet accounts
18.11.08 Revenues up at BAA
18.11.08 Emergency exercise at Liverpool Airport
18.11.08 Eastern axe Manchester – Stansted route
18.11.08 Ryanair cut Durham Tees Valley flights
18.11.08 Jet axe Heathrow – Amritsar flights
18.11.08 Man arrested at Edinburgh Airport over people smuggling
18.11.08 Ryanair announce two new Gatwick routes
18.11.08 Man charged over East Midlands Airport drugs find
17.11.08 Belfast International calls for Belfast City runway inquiry
17.11.08 Iberia says BA pension deficit will affect merger shares
17.11.08 Business back Coventry Airport appeal
17.11.08 Air France services hit by strike
17.11.08 Belfast Airport drug smugglers jailed
17.11.08 BA London City – NY passengers to pre-clear US immigration
17.11.08 BA to upgrade 737 engines
16.11.08 easyJet wins review of Gatwick charges
16.11.08 Northwest axe Gatwick – Detroit flights
16.11.08 2M win Heathrow runway alternation pledges
16.11.08 Ryanair to announce London expansion
16.11.08 Gatwick wins award
15.11.08 Stelios spat with easyJet board
15.11.08 Councils sign up to Gatwick agreement
15.11.08 National Trust opposed Cardiff Airport road plans
15.11.08 Ryanair to challenge EU support for Alitalia deal
15.11.08 Moody’s may downgrade BA
15.11.08 Ryanair flout EU fare advertising rules
15.11.08 Thefts at Bristol Airport car park
15.11.08 Durham Tees Valley Airport hotel could be approved this week
14.11.08 easyJet and Virgin to back Gatwick bid
14.11.08 Belfast City Airport applies for runway extension
14.11.08 Solihull Council to decide Birmingham Airport runway extension on December 15
14.11.08 Campaign group takes legal action over Stansted expansion
14.11.08 Concerns over roadworks near Glasgow Airport
14.11.08 Engineer maimed in Manchester Airport blast
14.11.08 TUI cut charter flight capacity again
14.11.08 Charity to fly from Prestwick Airport
14.11.08 Turtles seized at Manchester Airport
14.11.08 Heathrow T4 upgrade milestone
13.11.08 EU threaten Heathrow legal action
13.11.08 Scottish airports face ‘tough winter’
13.11.08 Bristol Airport walkway approved
13.11.08 BA execs in court over price fixing
13.11.08 Campaigners plan Heathrow decision flashmob
13.11.08 KLM use bigger planes at Durham Tees Valley
13.11.08 Council leader defends Heathrow support
13.11.08 Flybe plan Exeter Airport hotel
13.11.08 Virgin flight grounded by overheated toilet pump
13.11.08 Beattie win easyJet PR contract
12.11.08 BAA passengers down 6%
12.11.08 Menzies cut 600 airport jobs
12.11.08 Couple with four children try to smuggle drugs via Edinburgh Airport
12.11.08 Iceland Express to switch from Stansted to Gatwick
12.11.08 SAS to add Heathrow – Copenhagen flights
12.11.08 Manchester Airport runs online game to promote shops
12.11.08 Emirates to fly A380 on Heathrow route from next month
12.11.08 Durham Tees Valley taxi company continues to trade
12.11.08 Two awards for Flybe
12.11.08 Conservatives want direct Bristol – Heathrow train
11.11.08 Heated Commons debate over Heathrow
11.11.08 15 April start date for Stansted inquiry
11.11.08 Walsh pessimistic on US open market; says consolidation will speed up
11.11.08 BA passengers drop
11.11.08 Norwich Airport launch tours
11.11.08 BA stewardess stole charity money
11.11.08 Jet2 announce Manchester – Crete flights
11.11.08 Flyglobespan axe Aberdeen – Egypt route
11.11.08 New restaurant near Glasgow Airport
11.11.08 Virgin Atlantic win three awards
10.11.08 Campaigners say transfer passengers undermine Heathrow runway case
10.11.08 Ten hospitalised after Ryanair emergency landing in Rome
10.11.08 Airlines ‘only partially implement pricing rules’
10.11.08 Perishables hub opens at Humberside Airport
10.11.08 Qantas A380 superjumbo at Heathrow from January
10.11.08 AOA presses Government on air tax changes
10.11.08 Delta axe Heathrow – Seattle service
10.11.08 New Manchester Airport train platform passes test
10.11.08 Robin Hood Airport £90 clamping fee for OAP
10.11.08 UFO sighting near Bristol Airport
09.11.08 Last passenger flight from Coventry Airport
09.11.08 Eddie Stobart ‘to buy Southend Airport’
09.11.08 Bristol Airport could double in size
09.11.08 Ryanair face prosecution over lack of e-mail address
09.11.08 Edinburgh Airport campaign asks passengers to ‘lighten up’
09.11.08 Manchester is airport of the year
09.11.08 Emergency landing at Gatwick
09.11.08 Transavia adds Luton – Rotterdam flights
09.11.08 Virgin face 2 year delay for Dreamliners
09.11.08 easyJet puts summer flights from East Midlands on sale
08.11.08 Liverpool Airport passengers up 1.3%
08.11.08 Coventry Airport terminal appeal
08.11.08 Walsh says Heathrow runway ‘crucial’ to recovery
08.11.08 BA wants Alitalia alliance
08.11.08 Man arrested at Luton after attempting to open plane door
08.11.08 BA cuts Gatwick and Heathrow routes
08.11.08 Views sought on Leeds Bradford Airport congestion
08.11.08 Consultation briefings for Robin Hood Airport masterplan
08.11.08 New boss for VLM at Manchester Airport
08.11.08 LTE Norwich flights suspended until late March
07.11.08 Parliament to debate Heathrow expansion
07.11.08 Minister warns over Heathrow emissions
07.11.08 BA profits down 92%
07.11.08 No fraud probe into Silverjet collapse
07.11.08 Russian pilots fined over alcohol breach at Manchester Airport
07.11.08 Polish man charged over big Birmingham Airport drugs find
07.11.08 easyJet launch summer 2009 schedule from Belfast Airport
07.11.08 More passengers using East Midlands Airport bus
07.11.08 Jet2’s Leeds Bradford – New York flight a sell out
07.11.08 Jet2 expands at Manchester Airport
06.11.08 Big flights drop at Manchester Airport
06.11.08 easyJet passengers up 18.4%
06.11.08 MP wants Newcastle Airport court payment probe
06.11.08 Work starts on Prestwick Airport extension
06.11.08 FirstGroup backs Heathrow runway
06.11.08 Stansted campaign group’s first leader dies
06.11.08 Mexicana confirm Gatwick Schedule
06.11.08 Bald man with moustache gets through Edinburgh Airport on woman’s ticket
06.11.08 Aberdeen Airport drug smugger jailed
06.11.08 New BA lounge at Washington Airport
05.11.08 bmi axe US flights from Manchester Airport
05.11.08 Competition Commission question Stansted expansion
05.11.08 Airport ID card test scales back
05.11.08 Union seek Obama help on BA – AA deal
05.11.08 Glasgow Airport protest grounded after tip off
05.11.08 Air Sylhet to fly to Jeddah
05.11.08 Virgin celebrate Heathrow anniversary
05.11.08 Lydd Airport expansion – ‘nuclear safety remains an issue’
05.11.08 Manx2 expand IOM - Gloucester route
05.11.08 Holiday Extras add more ‘undercover’ airport hotels
04.11.08 ‘Unacceptable delays’ at Stansted but fees still increased
04.11.08 Campaigners angry at Stansted inquiry speed
04.11.08 BAA contribute £230m to Crossrail
04.11.08 bmi say UK – Saudi open skies for BA benefit
04.11.08 Big backing for campaign to save BA Glasgow Airport base
04.11.08 3i consider Gatwick bid
04.11.08 Heathrow protests planned
04.11.08 Fog delays at Aberdeen Airport
04.11.08 MP: Gatwick failed to spot knife
04.11.08 Robin Hood Airport want quicker road link
03.11.08 T5 chaos ‘could have been avoided’
03.11.08 Hoon backs Heathrow expansion
03.11.08 Ryanair profits down 47 percent
03.11.08 EU could lift liquids ban
03.11.08 Ryanair plan £8 transatlantic flights
03.11.08 Police warning over Edinburgh Airport laser incidents
03.11.08 ‘Massive upgrade’ of Birmingham Airport security system
03.11.08 Job cuts at Robin Hood Airport
03.11.08 Fox ‘guarding’ Glasgow Airport car park
03.11.08 Holiday Extras to sell car parking to easyJet customers
02.11.08 Labour to speed up Stansted runway inquiry
02.11.08 BA staff call passengers ‘smelly and annoying’
02.11.08 KLM to launch Liverpool - Amsterdam flights
02.11.08 Air Berlin add Stansted – Dusseldorf flight
02.11.08 MPs in war of words over plans to tax freight aircraft
02.11.08 Councillor seeks Belfast International safeguards over City expansion
02.11.08 Lydd Airport boss expects to benefit from BAA sell off
02.11.08 Jersey Airport duty free delay
02.11.08 Loganair extends summer Shetland – Bergen service
02.11.08 bmi axe short haul fuel surcharge
01.11.08 Campaigners say Bristol Airport expansion will harm business
01.11.08 BA bid for India’s Go Air ‘grounded’
01.11.08 Heathrow campaign group goes to Scotland
01.11.08 £1m safety simulator for Norwich Airport
01.11.08 Telegraph reviews ‘worst Gatwick Hotel’
01.11.08 BA to axe Gatwick – Dublin route
There is a lot happening at UK airports at the moment. Heathrow airport, the worlds busiest international airport with 67.9 million passengers in 2007, has opened a £4.2 billion terminal 5, waiting on a planning decision for a new runway (and sixth terminal) and has planning permission for another new terminal called Heathrow East. Gatwick Airport, the worlds busiest single runway airport (two terminals, but one runway), with 35.2 million passengers in 2007 continues to hope for a new runway in 2020.
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 will be the site the first of the UK's new runways some time after 2013, if it can get planning approval. However, Luton Airport recently scrapped plans for a new runway.
But it is at the the regional airports - led by Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle and Bristol - where the growth is 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.
