Cambridge Airport expansion
 

Heard on the local news this morning, Cambridge Airport is set to have a £20 million expansion, starting in July. Looks like the end to any relocation rumours;


£20 million pledge from Cambridge Airport - Corporate Jet Investor

NIMBY
 

CAT III goes into Nimby mode here - Why not develope Alconbury - A big runway very close to the A1(M). - The southerly approach to the main runway is over built up areas. I can personally verify that one.

Boo Hiss - "We need ecomomic developement - but not on the edge of crumbling cities."

CAT III .

CATIII: At a guess:
(1) what for? is there any need for in this region? Cambridge are talking about nothing more than bizjets.
(2) it is closed and would have to have squillions spent re-opening it
(3) it has never been a civil aerodrome so would have to have even more squillions spent re-engineering it to ICAO standards
(4) Cambridge residents are used to having aircraft noise. Residents of Huntingdon, Houghton, Hemington and St Ives have had almost 20 years to get used to having no aircraft noise from Alconbury and would undoubtedly have somehting to say about a re-opened Alconbury.
NS

"We need ecomomic developement - but not on the edge of crumbling cities."

In what way is Cambridge crumbling?

It is one of the few very bright spots in the UK and even Europe currently.

You should be glad of the fact that the airport will bring further wealth to the region.

Bring it on.

They already have a few scattered routes as "London" Cambridge airport.

How ripe are both CBG and OXF for the Flybe model to the usual domestics and a couple of big Euro hubs? Start with EDI, GLA, BHD and grow from there?

Similar story in both - not huge cities but good mix of high earners and the university crowd, both close-ish to bigger airports but travel time + big terminal hassle create opportunity for smaller local terminal to provide better service.

It will be the only London airport to also serve the Norfork Broards:}

You're always guilty of the same crime, LTNman... forgetting London Southend :E

Why is someone chucking 20 million on an airport that is not needed........

Not needed by FR but maybe by others.....

Reply to Narrow Runway:
 

Yes OK I was feeling a bit grumpy: the C130's rumbling overhead are a bit of a pain but not that frequent.

Re Cambridge crumbling - Give this place a try at 8.30 am in a Car - the gas mains are being patched on a major route from the south and the place comes to a standstill.

This is not the first time - same prob for collapsing sewers and water mains.

Its a great place for a visit for a few days, but take a look behind the Olde England facades and its a different matter sadly. New technology hot-spot yes but that's not the whole story.

CAT III

Hardly as aviation is not exactly growing in the UK and there are numerous airports that have had money spent on them in better catchment areas that are struggling to survive.

How many "London" airports are there now?

London Heathrow
London Gatwick
London City
London Biggin Hill
London Farnborough
London Northolt
London Blackbushe
London Luton
London Stansted
London Southend
London Ashford (Lydd)
London Oxford

and then London Cambridge and a couple of others if you wish to include them although they have not formally rebranded.

Let's not forget:

London Birmingham
London East Midlands
London Exeter
London Southampton
London Bournemouth

Very important London airports! *cough*

Given that you can get to Southampton Airport from London in 1h02m, it is very odd to say so but also fair to say that it could almost qualify.

I used to live in Cambridge in the 70s. At 08.30 then I could beat any car on my bike from Cyprus Road to the railway station.

jabird:A summer Saturdays only service to Jersey, and a total of 18 summer flights to a place in France no-one's ever heard of, and neither seriously marketed, as far as I can see, as being from "London Cambridge Airport".
NS

CAT111-NDB
 

Hi,

I am very familiar with Cambridge. I live here and have done for 20 years.

Yes, it is true, East Road is dug up currently. And yes, there have been city centre issues with drainage around the St Andrew Street/Corn Exchange area in recent months. You name me a city that doesn't have its own traffic issues - and to be fair, the Cambridge city centre is deliberately car unfriendly. The council want us on the numerous park&rides, buses, guided buses and trains that run frequently.

But come on!! This is probably one of the very best areas to live in the country and it has loads going for it. You want to look outside our sheltered haven more often.

We should welcome any development at Marshalls. It is a potential benefit to our great city.

Quote:
"London Heathrow
London Gatwick
London City
London Biggin Hill
London Luton
London Stansted
London Southend
London Ashford (Lydd)
London Oxford

and then London Cambridge and a couple of others if you wish to include them although they have not formally rebranded."

...yet!


also London Farnborough (FAB),
London Northolt (NHT),
London Blackbushe (BBS)
London Southampton (SOU)

to boost aviation capacity in the southeast?



Quote: "Let's not forget:

London Birmingham
London East Midlands
London Exeter
London Southampton
London Bournemouth

Very important London airports! *cough* "


London Southampton (SOU) definitely!

And London West (BOH) for FR fans?

Or how about London [Prestwick] http://images.ibsrv.net/ibsrv/res/sr...cons/icon9.gif

Anyone remember -


" A budget airline may have broken its own record for dropping its passengers off at airports miles from their destinations.
Customers frequently moan that Frankfurt-Hahn airport is about 75 miles from Frankfurt, or that it takes one hour and ten minutes on the bus to get from Barcelona-Girona airport to Barcelona.
But a new advert for Ryanair tops them all, offering flights from Oslo to "London Prestwick" airport. Prestwick international airport is located 30 miles from Glasgow, and nearly 400 miles from London.
The advert appeared in a Norwegian newspaper, Aftenposten on Monday, as part of a promotion in which passengers would pay only the taxes and charges for their flights. A trip from Oslo to "London Prestwick" would cost only 176 Norwegian kroner (approximately £15.70)".


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