I remember that back in the days of British Rail, the staff would go in fear of the builders or the painters arriving because it meant almost certain closure of the station or signal box concerned.

The cost of terminal improvements will be a drop in the ocean compared to what the land will fetch

The new air bridges we're soley done to keep Wizz happy.. but the cost of this comes nothing close to the value of the land and the income going forward.

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!

Perhaps they already know, but there is a non disclosure agreement.

Would explain all the senior management leaving over the last couple of months.

Yeah and then another one will take its place. BOSA are recruiting for engineering to cover it.

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 🫣🫣

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..........

https://flydsa.co.uk/latest-news/str...w-announcement

Game over.

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.

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.

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 ?

Wizz wont care about losing a handful of Eastern European flights.

TUI could split capacity between East Midlands, Leeds, Manchester for next year.

Is it the airport they won’t touch or the airport operator?

Good question - but who realistically would buy it? And if Peel want to develop the land, they aren't likely to sell.

Airlines seem to have no problem operating into Liverpool

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.

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.

A 90 day consultation from today would end on 11 October. Add 14 days for EU261, and we get to 25 October.
Summer 2022 schedules end on Saturday 29 October

Apart from the ex Vulcan hangar, they must have build lots of new facilities since I last visited in 2019 then?

I guess you could put the Vulcan in the terminal and turn it into a museum?