0871 360 2443| News Archive | Airport News Archive September 2008Bristol airport Expansion Plans Bristol Airport has revealed final details of its £100m expansion plans. The proposals include an increase in the size of the terminal, more airport parking spaces and building a new port hotel, to cope with up to nine million passengers a year. The final plan was drawn up following consultation with local people over the publication last year of a draft plan for the next decade and the period to 2030. It included plans to increase capacity at the airport from six to nine million passengers in 10 years.The plan says the increase in passengers can be achieved without building another runway or extending the existing one, The Terminal building will be extended at each end to create more check-in desks, while the airport parking area will be expanded. However, the car park roof will be covered in vegetation, so that the new building merges into the background. New routes from Newcastle airport New flights From Bristol Airport between Bristol and Paris was launched by low-cost airline easyJet yesterday. Flights will commence in May 2006 between Newcastle International Airport and New York JFK with American Airlines. Ryanair are due to operate a regular service between Newcastle International Airport and Oslo in September 2006. Eastern Airways have announced that they will operate a new flight from Newcastle International Airport to Cardiff. The service will run three times a week, and the flight will take only 75 minutes as opposed to a 5-hour car journey. Online check in at Newcastle International Airport Easyjet are to be the first airline to introduce on-line checking in. From 16th March 2006, they will offer an on-line check in facility for passengers flying from Newcastle International Airport and a 15 minute gate arrival time, for passengers with hand luggage. This will assist 1 million passengers who travel through Newcastle airport every year, and by April 2006, 90% of all Easyjet passengers travelling from other airports will benefit from this new system. Customers may by-pass check in by printing of boarding passes from their own computers at the time of booking. Safety checks at the airport will remain unchanged. easyJet has announced new routes from Bristol and Newcastle Airport plus increased frequencies from other departure as part of its summer 2007 schedule. The budget carrier is to launch three times a week Bordeaux flights from Bristol starting in June. Four flights a week from Newcastle to Krakow are being launched from April 1 and Menorca will be served with a twice-daily service from the airport from July 14. This will bring the airline's network from the airport up to 18 routes. Too heavy to Fly A 29-stone man was thrown off a plane because he was 'too fat to fly', it has been reported. Dave Brown, 58, from Middlesbrough, had to abandon his holiday after he could not fit into any of the seats. Mr Brown was due to fly to the Turkish resort of Altinkum from Newcastle Airport with his wife Margaret, 53, but was shocked to find he could not fit in any of the plane's seats. He said he had warned Thomas Cook that he was 6ft 6in tall and weighed 29 stone, contacting them three times, but was told he could still fly.They arrived at Newcastle Airport four hours before the flight and Mr Brown said they were told again there would not be an issue. But problems arose once they boarded the plane. The airline said it had offered Mr Brown a row of three seats at the front of the plane but he was unable to fit in any of them. The couple then had to get off the plane, which was held up for 45 minutes. Liverpool Airport: Passenger Numbers Increase at Liverpool Airport Liverpool John Lennon Airport is delighted to announce an increase in the number of passengers choosing to use the Airport throughout the autumn months.
New Routes During the first week of October, Ryanair launched 11 new routes to Aberdeen and Inverness in Scotland, Kaunas in Lithuania, Krakow, Poznan, and Wroclaw in Poland to name a few. It was during this week that Ryanair also announced a further two routes from Liverpool to popular ski destinations Grenoble in France and Saltsburg in Austria, starting from mid December. Low cost Polish carrier, Wizz Air, also saw a major boost on its Warsaw route during October with 77% more passengers travelling to and from the Polish Capital compared to October 2005. Meanwhile, easyJet recently welcomed its 15 millionth passenger through the doors of JLA since it started operating in October 1997. Major route expansion at Liverpool John Lennon airport. Ryanair have announced that they are adding another 11 new destinations to their base at Liverpool Airport, which will take the number of different routes to 57 They will now fly to Inverness and Aberdeen in Scotland, Ancona on the Adriatic coast, Alghero on the island of Sardinia, Krakow, Poznan and Wroclaw in Poland, Kaunas in Lithuania, Santander and Santiago in Spain and Tampere in Finland. These new services will operate several times a week The 11 new routes will create 600 new jobs 600,000 more passengers and another 80 million tourism spend in Merseyside. Next May Air Malta will be launching scheduled services between Malta and Liverpool Airport. Flights will be on Mondays and thursdays. Nottingham East Airport Midlands unveils expansion plans Nottingham East Midlands Airport hopes to double the routes on offer by 2016.Newly announced expansion plans reveal that this could also create another 7,000 jobs. There are no plans to build a second runway, but an array of measures to make these plans possible has been announced. Budget flight routes are expected to increase from 100 to 200 in the next 10 years. Nottingham East Midlands will inject around £50 million into site services and customer services in the next 5 years. The Airport stated that it was keen to allay fears of increased noise pollution and that it would bring in new measures on noise levels, particularly at night. The draft plans are open for public consultation until May 14 and the final paper will be published next summer. Ryanair announces new flight A new daily route to Nottingham East Midlands airport is set to operate from the City of Derry from Weds 5th April. It is hoped it will be popular with travellers from the North West who live in close proximity to major cities such as Leicester, Nottingham, Coventry Bristol and Sheffield. Ryanair will offer approximately 1000,000 seats per annum on the new route. Ryanair is to launch a new service from Nottingham East Midlands Airport to Rimini starting in March next year. The service begins on March 27, flying three times a week, and bringing the number of Ryanair routes from Nottingham East Midlands Airport to 29. Ryanair announced that it will launch 10 new routes from its Nottingham East Midlands airport base yesterday. The low-cost airline will launch flights to Alghero, Bratislava, Granada, Inverness, Knock, Krakow, Milan, Pisa, Santiago and Valencia from February 2007. Birmingham Airport: Monarch announces new scheduled base Air fares from Birmingham airport are set to fall still further, when Monarch Scheduled launches its new base from BIA in April 2005.The airline will operate daily services to Tenerife and Malaga with prices starting from as little £39 one way including all taxes. This Christmas Helios Airways Introduces New Flights To Cyprus From Birmingham Airport. The New Year will see the airline continuing to expand its services from Birmingham and introduce departures every Friday starting from 11th February - 25th March. Flights will depart at 11:00 and arrive at 17:30 and depart from Larnaca at 07:00 and arrive at 10:00. April 2005 will offer passengers additional flights from Birmingham Airport as Helios Airways adds a Saturday departure from April 2nd - October 30th. This flight will leave Birmingham airport at 22:40, arriving at 05:10 and will depart Larnaca airport at 18:40 arriving at 21:40. ALITALIA'S INAUGURAL SERVICE The new link between Birmingham airport and Milan will also open up the rest of Italy thanks to Alitalia’s speedy onward connections to a further 21 Italian cities and also to many other worldwide destinations ranging from Athens to Osaka or Warsaw to name but a few. More flights from Leeds Bradford Airport Air Southwest, one of the U’K’S fastest growing low-fare airline is to double its flights from Leeds Bradford Airport from 10th April, including a third daily service to Bristol. The new schedule also sees the introduction of a daily non-stop flight to Newquay. Newquay is one of the worlds surfing hot spots, and also the location of Jamie Oliver’s new restaurant venture “Fifteen Cornwall”. Air Southwest also fly to Plymouth, Cardiff, Manchester, London Gatwick, Jersey and Dublin. New service from Leeds Bradford Airport to Taba. Independent operator Peltours have announced a new flight to the Egyptian airport of Taba this coming winter from Leeds Bradford Airport. The flight will be operated by Astraeus airlines, and will depart every Thursday from 5th October for 6 weeks, making it a perfect opportunity for those seeking some winter sunshine! Taba Heights is one of Egypt’s newest resorts on the Red Sea area, ideal for people wanting some late sunshine. With numerous secluded bays, lagoons and coves, and shallow reefs accessible from the beach, it is the ideal place to dive and snorkel. With average temperatures around 27 degrees in October, this is an opportunity to good to miss! New facilities at Leeds Bradford Airport Leeds Bradford has seen the opening of a new Superdrug store, along with a refurbished lounge and bar. This is the first airport based store and part of a plan to open a number of Superdrug stores at other airports Growing traffic congestion around Edinburgh airport is to be tackled with plans for a new dual carriageway to the fast-growing facility. BAA Scotland, which runs the airport, said yesterday it would apply for planning permission for a direct access road from the nearby Gogar roundabout in February or March. The move follows concern at increasing traffic on the current access road at peak times, especially when major events are being staged at the adjacent Ingliston showground. Passengers using the airport are increasing annually by 7 per cent to nearly eight million a year, and BAA ultimately wants a direct motorway link from the M8 to Edinburgh airport. The road from Gogar is seen as necessary because new public transport links are at least five years away. A tram line from the city centre is not expected to be completed until 2009, and a through rail link not until 2010. A BAA Scotland spokesman said the link was initially likely to be a single carriageway, which could be widened to a dual carriageway later. He said: "Eastfield Road is manageable at the moment, but it can get very busy. If there is even a minor accident or an event at Ingliston, it can very quickly seize up." Motoring groups gave the plan a guarded welcome, but public transport campaigners called on BAA to fund it. 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