DSA has higher passenger numbers than other regional airports such as Bournemouth, Norwich, Southend, Humberside and Blackpool. I visit DSA regularly and don't recognise the "ghost town" and "run down" place that TommyW describes. It's not busy by any stretch of the imagination and a lack of passenger flights, but there is regular activity and frequent arrivals and departures by business, cargo and training flights. There is a letter in today's Free Press from a nearby resident complaining about the high number of non-passenger flights.
Preparatory works have started on the link road. The Highways Agency will not permit construction work to start until the White Rose Way dualling is complete. An extra lane is scheduled to be added to the M18 between junctions 2 and 3, and I suspect the Highways Agency will want this to be completed before the link road opens as the M18 is at capacity at peak times.
Last edited by wb9999; 7th Mar 2013 at 20:49.