Nottingham Airport ! ; you mean Tollerton International of course.
It has an assortment of concrete runways that are about the length of my index finger. OK for kite flying but nothing else.
Why doesn't anyone develop the airfield at Hucknall. It has a huge east west runway, right by the M1 and almost in the pocket of the city of Nottingham.
FEBA

Yes but Hucknall just happens to have a large engine test-bed built slap bang in the middle of the old runway (At least I presume it's still there!)

On Radio Leicester this morning a listener suggested EMA should be re-named The Bill Maynard Airport:D

As SLF why change the name? We all know where EGNX is; and, I am sure any of our European friends thinking of visiting England surely have some idea of the airports location given it's name.:8

I feel that the people of Leicester and Derby will feel aggrieved if the airport does become Nottingham because they already have one airport, plus the drive along the A453 to Notts is a nightmare, whatever would our new found friends from Europe think of that!:O

ps. Whilst driving to Lincoln on the A46, I have not yet spotted any aircraft on finals to Newark International Airport (EWR);)

According to bmibaby's research the whole problem is that our fellow europeans DO have great difficulty in knowing where EMA is. As they can't find a dot on the map.

Interestingly - today the airport has announced that they are conducting an extensive survey with regard to a name change, so must be quite a serious proposal.

www.eastmidlandsairport.com/news

With regard to Derby and Leicester residents - surely they would rather have a nearby airport called Nottingham that results in more flight connections and a boost to inbound tourism, rather than an airport with a vaque name that european LoCo's don't touch because they have difficulty marketing it.

I wonder if the residents of Dudley, Solihull and Wolverhampton feel agrieved that BHX is named Birmingham and not....well West Midlands Intl.

egnx

OK then, Tri-Cities Regional Airport (TRI)! :p

Orange County, California doesn't seem to have any difficulty with it's name. That's not a "dot on the map" either.

Plenty of other examples.

KRSW
 

Florida Southwest Int'l nr Fort Myers


Sir George Cayley

Which ever name is chosen if it contains just one cities name you can bet there will be touble and local people may vote with there feet.
I would hate Nottingham international or somwthing like that.Why should an airport be named after a city who's most famous thing is a mythical man who robbed the rich bla bla bla-you know Robin Hood.
What with Nottinghams current levels of gun crime its like the wild west over there-who on earth from Europe would want to go there with recent gun related murders?
The AA state Derby is infact the closest city to EMA so who decided it should be Nottingham and who for that matter at IATA etc decided EMA should be reffered to as Nottingham when it isnt the closest.
Myself I like the name "three cities international" or "EMA three cities"
Either one indicates the local three cities without focusing on any one of them.
Or to be controversial how about "DERBY ROLLS ROYCE INTERNATIONAL" Rolls Royce has been linked to Derby and the aviation industry for decades.As many of the worlds airlines operate fleets powered by Royces engines this could be a fitting tribute to a major player in the aviation industry.
Or maybe they could just name the airport after which ever city gets the most low level overflights day and night.

Plantzzman,

No doubt you also support Derby County, and during your school holidays you like to go to the aeropark to spot the big planes!

:ok:

As touching as your loyalty to your home city is, and as caustic as your tongue is regarding other local cities I'm sure you do understand that airlines fly for one reason...to MAKE MONEY!

They couldn't give a :mad: about the historicity of My Hood. But one thing is sure that on a European or International level Robin Hood is a known story, people have heard of Nottingham because of the story ( and films) and knowledge helps marketing.

Robin Hood = Knowledge of Nottingham = A good name for the Airport = more passengers = MORE MONEY = more routes planned = more aircraft = more for you to spot on a Saturday afternoon.

EGNXEMA support Derby County come on you may not agree with my post but do you think iam stupid enough to support a team who often play like they have their legs tied together.Footy has never been an interest to me-never really floated my boat.
As my school days are just a distant dream (or should that be nightmare) cannot really comment on the aeropark other than EMA and the people who support the park should be commended for what they offer maintaining some pretty important aircraft.
As for the big planes yep there the only ones which even give me a glimmer of interest-has to be a 747 or AN124 to even make me think about taking a look.Couldnt stand and make notes on yet another BMIBaby 737.YYAAWWNNN
Didnt realise I had a caustic tongue-must have been licking the soda again.All I pointed out was Nottingham relied on a mythical character which neither Derby or Leciester do and also suffers badly with gun crime which tourists just wouldnt like.To be honnest if I was a tourist I couldnt see any reason to go to Derby (Derbyshire-yes) cannot comment on Leicester.
For me it can stay East Midlands Airport.If Europeans are that ignorant of the British Isles that they cannot work out where the East of the middle is do we really want them and do they really want to come here.
I fully support the airport in its growth from a community point of view as its good for local jobs etc.
More than anything I feel its a pointless thing the airport are doing when they should be focusing on improving the facilities which recent threads have indicated are far from good.
One last thing name wise-from what people tell me and so this is very second hand the councils of Derbyshire put a greater amount into the airport than Notts and Lecis each did when it was first built-that is why many people in Derbyshire feel strongly about its eventual name.
This is something which will rumble on.
May I assure you of my best intentions at all times.

plantzzman
I have to agree with egnxema that the name Nottingham does mean more to the average inbound european than anything else-I have first hand experience of times when that lack of 'visibility' has led directly to passengers going to birmingham or manchester when we were more convenient
the airport does need to grow the inbound passenger market and maybe a name change can help-as for derby putting more money in!-all that council were interested in was taking the maximum amount out of the airport, they had no interest in developing the facilities, it was not until privitisation that the airport really took off

Has anyone asked ATC up that big tower what they think? I can just imagine the scenario,
"Eastflight 31 pass your flight details"
"Eastflight 31, Jetstream out of Aberdeen inbound Nottingham"
"Eastflight 31 , is that Nottingham Tollerton or Nottingham International?"
Could be fun with those Eastern European ad hoc freight charters, I can just imagine one of those An124s on short finals for Tollerton:D Well you did say Nottingham.........:eek:

name it after a famous son of the region:
D.H. Lawrence International Airport

hmm. Or why not an acronym combining all three cities:

NoDeLe International Airport

answer=42

Answer 42 where was D H Lawrence from?shows what I know about the East Mids :confused:
Navy Adversary an AN124 into Tollerton eh-that would mess a few pants and dependant on who is piloting the aircraft could happen I guess.:eek:
As I said Almost Prof I dont know anything about what happened in the olden days with the councils-thats why I indicated so much in my post.
Still think they need to improve facilities alot before pushing the airport further-it would be better not to get a bad name for the service they offer if flights increased without the services.
Iam still interested as to why IATA chose Nottingham as there official airport name when many in aviation would note Derbys links to Rolls Royce with operating aircraft with their engines and so maybe have a good view of where Derby already was.
At the end of the day still think East Midlands is perfectly ok.

And what are they going to call the proposed airport near Rugby if they ever build it? West Midlands Airport??:}

I would go for Nottingham (after all they used to call it "Queen" of the Midlands and if you go up town on a Saturday night this isn't far short of the truth!!).

Rename EGBN Tollerton - that's what it always was - I know this might offend some people but the idea of calling it an "airport" well - nuff sed on that one. By the way, en passant, it is a great GA airfield and it does have two good tarmac/concrete runways plus a very nice cafe (end of plug).

How about NottsDerby airport.Similar name style seems to work for LBA-every body knows where it is.I realise that it may disappoint some people in Leicester but anything longer would be cumbersome and Derby and Nottingham are the nearest cities.

still fishing.

Whilst driving along this morning an idea came into my head. Whichever City or County council puts their money where their mouth is, and puts a financial package together which would fund a 21st century passenger terminal, complete with walkways, they could have the airport named after them.
This has already happened to a lesser extent in sport with the Walkers Stadium, AMP Oval etc.
I realise that because the airport is privately owned there would be difficulties with this, but if all else fails the owners can always call it Manchester South.:hmm:

..how about Central England Airport ?

MAN777, i am sorry and if this gets me banned then so be it because of how strongly i feel about it.
BOLLOCKS YOU ARE FULL OF ****. MAN plc may own the airport but how many of the ****s from Manchester come and fly from EMA????? i bet not many at all if any. EMA has got a Derbyshire address, post code and telephone number and is situated in Leicester so whats the connection to Notts. There isnt one apart from Notts council, along with Derbyshire and Leicestershire councils help with funding for the airport, so that means us local tax payers help with the funding to.

Either leave the airport as it is 'East Midlands Airport' or call it 'DLN International'

Get your facts sorted first before blowing sunshine out your own arse.