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Originally Posted by TimmyW
I'm skeptical. A lot has just been spent on the terminal improvements.
If there is an announcement - how do you know it is definitely regarding closure?
If there is an announcement - how do you know it is definitely regarding closure?
The cost of terminal improvements will be a drop in the ocean compared to what the land will fetch
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Originally Posted by TimmyW
I'm skeptical. A lot has just been spent on the terminal improvements.
If there is an announcement - how do you know it is definitely regarding closure?
If there is an announcement - how do you know it is definitely regarding closure?
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Originally Posted by AndrewH52
Not sure Peel would hold a press conference to impart that kind of news. Besides anything they would be bound to tell their employees first before anyone else!
Would explain all the senior management leaving over the last couple of months.
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Originally Posted by dsamole
Also, i never said it would close "within a week".
Also, the "One Air" 747 isn't based at DSA at all, its used it as a facility to operate from for its single CAA proving flight, and is now parked up for the next 3 weeks until it departs for Prestwick.
Also, the "One Air" 747 isn't based at DSA at all, its used it as a facility to operate from for its single CAA proving flight, and is now parked up for the next 3 weeks until it departs for Prestwick.
There’s loads of land around the airport, so why would they close the airport to build.. makes zero sense. Besides that Doncaster council aren’t going to allow it, they’d just block all planning permission. The airport and surrounding infrastructure is critical to the area.
We will see soon enough 🫣🫣
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Posted on Facebook that it is a joint Peel and TUI announcement regarding a large increase in flights.
At this stage - who knows.
43 minutes to go..........
At this stage - who knows.
43 minutes to go..........
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All we can hope for is a suitable buyer to take the airport and make a success of it with Peel continuing to develop the surrounding ancillary land. I sincerely hope Peel aren’t planning a similar stunt to what occurred with Sheffield airport all those years ago.
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Originally Posted by orion1210
All we can hope for is a suitable buyer to take the airport and make a success of it with Peel continuing to develop the surrounding ancillary land. I sincerely hope Peel aren’t planning a similar stunt to what occurred with Sheffield airport all those years ago.
Who is going to take that on - when no airlines other than TUI will touch it.
Peel have always wanted the land, they have it and won't give it up i'm certain.
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Doncaster Sheffield Airport faces closure as 'no longer commercially viable' | Yorkshire Post
Doncaster Sheffield Airport faces closure, its board has announced, just a month after Wizz Air announced that it was withdrawing its aircraft.
Where are TUI and Wizz likely to use for the routes they currently operate to DSA ? I would have said Leeds... but I'm not sure LBA has the capacity to absorb another 500,000 or even 1m passengers any time soon
Perhaps TUI add a bit to MAN and a bit to BHX, while Wizz add to EMA ?
Perhaps TUI add a bit to MAN and a bit to BHX, while Wizz add to EMA ?
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Originally Posted by davidjohnson6
Where are TUI and Wizz likely to use for the routes they currently operate to DSA ? I would have said Leeds... but I'm not sure LBA has the capacity to absorb another 500,000 or even 1m passengers any time soon
TUI could split capacity between East Midlands, Leeds, Manchester for next year.
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Originally Posted by TimmyW
The airport loses between 12-15 million per year.
Who is going to take that on - when no airlines other than TUI will touch it.
Peel have always wanted the land, they have it and won't give it up i'm certain.
Who is going to take that on - when no airlines other than TUI will touch it.
Peel have always wanted the land, they have it and won't give it up i'm certain.
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Originally Posted by orion1210
Is it the airport they won’t touch or the airport operator?
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It will be interesting to see what the likes of 2Excel say about this. They've invested tens of millions into their set up at the airport. I can't see them rolling over and leaving without huge financial compensation.
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The inabilities of the owner to sustain/attract the basic of routes to the airport.which will be its downfall.I’m unaware how this hasn’t been achieved, but looking in from the outside they used great road network easy to get to,longest runway in the North card,it still didn’t sell the airport. But yet in my eyes the writing was on the cards long before today’s announcement.
Sad day indeed as I know people who work at the DSA. I hope jobs for them will not be hard to come by. Good luck to them.
Reading through today’s announcement the doors will close at the end of the Summer season.
Sad day indeed as I know people who work at the DSA. I hope jobs for them will not be hard to come by. Good luck to them.
Reading through today’s announcement the doors will close at the end of the Summer season.
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Reading through today’s announcement the doors will close at the end of the Summer season.
Summer 2022 schedules end on Saturday 29 October
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Originally Posted by TimmyW
It will be interesting to see what the likes of 2Excel say about this. They've invested tens of millions into their set up at the airport. I can't see them rolling over and leaving without huge financial compensation.
