EMA Name Change
 

What is your opinion?

bmibaby rocked the boata little by advertising EMA as Nottingham in overseas press ads.

IATA list the city as Nottingham. The OAG list all EMA flights under Nottingahm in their Travel Agent's "Bibles".

Should the airport just go for it?

Nottingham East Midlands Airport
Nottingham International Airport

Any thoughts?


egnx

should be Nottingham International-but dont hold your breath for change any time soon!

Isn't EMA in Derbyshire ?!!??:hmm:
Castle Donington International sounds better...or better still, i'd name it after the Nags Heads on Dono's high street...a marvellous pint of Pedigree!!!!

East Midlands is in Leicestershire. It has a Derby address & phone number. But the nearest internationally known city is definately Nottingham. And the airport is only 14 miles from Nottingham City Centre, so it would hardly be a Ryanairesque airport name.

Have to agree about the Nag's head though, the airports best local!!

egnx

Suprised no-one has suggested London East Midlands Airport yet!:}

Seriously though, they tried this quite a few years ago when I lived in Leicester (well someone has to live there!). The local newspaper got involved and stirred up a load of local rivalry such that the idea got dropped.

As egnxema pointed out the airport is stuck in the middle of the three cities, each of which could claim name to the airport, so not an easy one to sort out.

Well - I suppose that by some stretch of the imagination it could be considered to be Manchester's second airport!

EMA
 

Why not Manchester East Midlands, it is owned by the tax payers of Manchester !!

How about Heart of England Airport?

Whatever it may become, please don't let it become (as with the fashion of the times in re-naming airports after people these days) Robin Hood International.....

It's between the three main cities of the East Midlands.
So why not call it 'East Midlands Airport'?:D

I would have thought BIRMINGHAM EAST would have been the logical choice. Certainly would make more sense than Manchester and/or London.

The "Main" user [BMA] used to be known ad Derby Aviation [aka Derby Flying club] so why not "Derby[shire (for our transat fiends) International
we aim to please, it keeps the deaners happy

If you go to bmibaby.com and choose a foreign airport in the ‘From’ dropdown menu, you’ll see that in the ‘To’ dropdown you get a choice of:

• East Midlands
• Nottingham (East Midlands)
• Derby (East Midlands)
• Leicester (East Midlands)

I guess they’re trying to cover all preferences. BTW, ‘Central England Airport’ would be my choice.

I seem to remember an expensive investigation of a name change some 20 odd years ago which came up with a shortlist of two .... 'Nottingham International' and 'M1'

And then nothing happened

possible names
1) Kegworth International
2) Junction 21A Intl
3) Diseworth Airport
4) Long Whatton Airport (specially for the lady from 42 High St who complains about the noise)
5) Sherwood Intl Airport
6) 3 Castles Intl

FEBA

yes but...
 

There's already a vast and hugely under-used airport just the other side of Nottingham called oh yes Nottingham Airport.

Besides which you can't call it "London" anything because there's a special and secretive clause in all airport-building or expansion for London that at least 2 of the following considerations must be ignored: historic buildings, thousands of homes, protected wetlands, SSSI's, legally-binding moratoria, local councils, airlines, airport operators, economic sense.

Unfortunately EMA is a sensibly-sized, located and operated airport, and cannot therefore be given the "London" brand-name.

The current airfiled named Nottingham Airport can hardly be considered "huge and underused", even the best of us would have difficulty dropping BY's 767's on their grasss strips!

Nottingham/Tollerton has (had - in my dim and distant memory - having done much of my PPL days (sh*t - 25 years ago) there) a typical war time 3 runway A configuration (although perhaps one has been disused for a long time) - not enuff for 'real airplanes' but definitely not grass

FireflyBob should have an opinion......................?

MAN777 - If you are right and its owned by the Councillors of Manchester, then it could follow the example of Anchorage Ted Stevens Airport who was a Councillor too - there must be a Manchester Councillor worthy of such a distinction,afterall they won the Commonwealth Games