Prime Minister Boris Johnson raised hopes of holiday flights once more returning to Blackpool Airport as he made his own flying visit to the Fylde coast on Thursday. Mr Johnson was in the resort to set out a framework of plans to help families struggling with the cost of living crisis including the relaunch of ‘right-to-buy’ policies to help more people own their home. But he also found time to visit HeliSpeed at Hangar 3 at Blackpool Airport which is a major hub for pilot training. And he challenged Blackpool Council, which owns the airport but says it is not commercially viable to relaunch holiday flights, to look again at what could be done. He said HeliSpeed was “going great gangbusters” and was now one of the biggest helicopter training centres in the country which had “put Blackpool on the map from an aviation point of view". The Prime Minister said the town needed “Conservative politicians with a vision to take it on”, and said the council should look at what had been achieved at Teeside Airport which now has “bars, duty free, conference facilities and flights going to holiday destinations in Europe".
Boris Johnson demands Blackpool Airport holiday flights return with 'bars and duty free' dreams