unused uk airports/airfields
Does anyone know how many airports/airfields are available in the uk and ireland that could facilitate scheduled air services but at the moment do not.
i only ask as i wonder if wr are in the uk maximising the potential that may be there. I am not intetested in the economic pros and cons of establishing air services really just what airports etc are out there that COULD. |
Durham castle / thornaby on tees international
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Sheffield donny and barnsley robin and his merry men SKYHARBOUR
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Durham and Doncaster both have scheduled services. The question was which airports don't but could. I'd suggest Carlisle, Hawarden, Cambridge, Coventry, Shoreham and Swansea are probably the only ones. All of these (except Hawarden?) have had schedules in the past.
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Hawarden used to have a flight to Liverpool by British Eagle 1 -11 ... it took about 6 minutes and cost 10 /-. I think it dropped in on the way to/from Heathrow or Gatwick.
You could add Biggin to the list. What are the criteria for "could facilitate scheduled air services but at the moment do not." capable of taking a 737 or a BN-2 ? |
That is a joke isn't it, "Thornaby on Tees" disappeared under a shopping centre 40 years ago.
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As said on another thread - OEM (Oxford Endeavour Morse) - has a Jersey charter, won't mention the V word!
Biggin Hill & Northolt take small stuff, but afaik planning restrictions, rather than airfield constraints prevent them from actually operating flights. If you came in with a rescue package, Plymouth is awaiting a future use. |
SHOPPING CENTRE
Mike Tee,
if you are going to talk about areas being covered by shopping centres you really should be on the Durham thread.;) |
RAE Bedford
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RAF Northolt...
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Used or unused airfields - using former airfields for raising turkeys seems to be a popular second use like at Wendling and Cockthorpe
Cockthorpe, United Kingdom - Google Maps |
In theory, antwhere that a Twin Otter could fly into our out of, seeing as you are not intetested (?) in the economic pros and cons. Hundreds of places.
In the years that I've been around and about, far, far more airports/fields have dropped out of the scheduled network (or have come and gone) than have been added to it. |
Im kinda thinking more along the lines of an underused resource.
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Prestwick, Campbeltown, Carlisle, Coventry...
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Farnborough, Dunsfold
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broadford isle of skye, plockton
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Underused?
Every UK airport(ex.Heathrow) unless this government changes its policy,outlook and taxation!!!
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Until April, Southend falls into the underused resource category, but hopefully it will repay the considerable investment it has received once EZY start services. Swansea, Carlisle, Cambridge, Coventry, Lydd, Manston are all underused; Durham Tees Valley is struggling. Plymouth needs resuscitation....
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Upper Heyford; run HS2 through it and you've got an airport for the south of England with links to London and Birmingham in about 25 mins, and the M40 nice and handy. Better not ask the locals tho...
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..how many airports/airfields are available in the uk and ireland that could facilitate scheduled air services but at the moment do not? I'd split them into four categories of potential: Intercontinental (eg widebody to NYC or DXB), European (eg 737 to Canaries/Cyprus), Regional (eg E90 to Spain/Poland), and Local (eg ATR to DUB/AMS or domestic). Intercontinental MoD Boscombe Down (Wiltshire) Bristol Filton - sadly recently closed - once had OLT service to Toulouse RAF Brize Norton (Oxfordshire) Bruntingthorpe (Leicestershire) RAF Coningsby (Lincolnshire) RAF Fairford (Gloucestershire) Farnborough (Hampshire) RAF Honington (Norfolk) RAF Kinloss (Scotland) RAF Lakenheath (Suffolk) RAF Leeming (Yorkshire) RAF Leuchars (Scotland) Llanbedr (West Wales) RAF Lossiemouth (Scotland) RAF Lyneham - due to close RAF Marham (Norfolk) RAF Mildenhall (Suffolk) RAF Scampton (Lincolnshire) RAF Waddington (Lincolnshire) Warton (Preston) Wattisham (Suffolk) RAF Wittering (Lincolnshire) Woodford (Cheshire) - sadly recently closed RAF Wyton (Cambridgeshire) RNAS Yeovilton (Somerset) European Baldonnel (Dublin) RAF Barkston Heath (Lincolnshire) Cambridge Carlisle Chalgrove (Oxfordshire) RM Chivenor (Devon) RAF Church Fenton (Yorkshire) Coventry RAF Cranwell (Lincolnshire) RNAS Culdrose (Cornwall) RAF Dishforth (Yorkshire) Hawarden (nr. Chester) - used to have OLT Toulouse service Kemble (Gloucestershire) RAF Linton-on-Ouse (Yorkshire) RAF Odiham (Hampshire) North Weald (Essex) Regional RAF Benson (Oxfordshire) Biggin Hill Cranfield (Bedfordshire) Gamston (Nottinghamshire) Haverfordwest Lasham (Hampshire) RNAS Merryfield (Somerset) RAF Mona (Anglesey) RAF Northolt RAF St Athan (South Wales) RAF Syerston (Newark) RAF Topcliffe (Yorkshire) RAF Woodvale (Merseyside) Local Blackbushe (Hampshire) Duxford (Cambridgeshire) Enniskillen (Northern Ireland) Lydd (Kent) Oban Oxford - scheduled services starting soon, March I think, to IOM and JER Swansea Yeovil (Somerset) |
At the present time, R/W 05R/23L at EGCC is an underused resource
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At the present time, R/W 05R/23L at EGCC is an underused resource
Which means unlike some other airports it has the ability to expand |
From the very detailed list i note the majority are raf or ex raf. are any of these in a position to accept civil operations.
i suppose i have to ask what operators would use these more niche for want of a better phrase airports as manx2 appear to be carving quite a msrket for themselves in this area |
if you are going to talk about areas being covered by shopping centres Used to be an airport there apparently...:E |
Why not simply attatch air-bridges and a runway to Bluewater?
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Lydd
Shoreham Manston Bembridge Sandown St Just Lyneham Swansea Haverfordwest Pembrey St Athan Cambridge Carlisle Brize Norton Fairford Kemble Coventry Plymouth etc Sorry for any duplication. |
Barrow-In-Furness.
Did have a scheduled service to EGCC in the late 1980s with BN2s operated by , well, 'Air Furness', naturally. |
Bristol Filton - sadly recently closed - once had OLT service to Toulouse So far as I know bmiRegional still operates regular flights to Toulouse and Broughton. |
Bristol Filton - sadly recently closed - once had OLT service to Toulouse Not closed yet - due to be at the end of this year though the aviation-related industries at the site will continue. I would also add NQY to the under used section cs |
South Marston
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Phileas I think the Honda factory might get in the way ;)
Sticking to that part of the world though, RAF/RNAY Wroughton (Science Museum Swindon). |
For the list for Ireland, you can add Galway and Sligo nowadays
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Good list, RAF Honington is in Suffolk not Norfolk though. Who would want to run a scheduled service from there to anywhere else I'm not quite sure.
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Besides South Marston there could also be Colerne, Hullavington etc. Have some fond memories of sitting in the Hullavington tower ..... never mind Keevil ... but that's another story :)
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I am not intetested in the economic pros and cons of establishing air services really just what airports etc are out there that COULD. Then you've got to consider the local competition from local rail services - it's often said that if the First Class Rail fare to any destination you want to serve, is cheaper than the minimum fare you can afford to charge, don't even think about it. Many, if not all, of the airports mentioned would never support regular air services, mainly because they don't have the catchment area, but also because no one could justify investing in the requisite infrastructure. Sorry to deflate your boat, but it was very intersesting to see all the places mentioned which once had the potential but, for one reason or another, someone missed the opportunity. |
West Freugh
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So i guess here wot we are saying is that regards airports, we are were we are and we are unlikly too see and additional airports being used anytime soon.
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Woodbridge
Bentwaters |
Manby, Strubby, Wymeswold, Crosland Moor, Stretton, Salmesbury, Ashbourne. Tollerton, Langar, Rearsby, Hucknall, Bruntingthorpe, Leicester East, Bitteswell. Loughborough, Darley Moor.
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