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The cost of terminal improvements will be a drop in the ocean compared to what the land will fetch
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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.
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Would explain all the senior management leaving over the last couple of months.
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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 🫣🫣
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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..........
At this stage - who knows.
43 minutes to go..........
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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.
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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.
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Doncaster Sheffield Airport faces closure as 'no longer commercially viable' | Yorkshire Post
Doncaster Sheffield Airport faces closure, its board has announced, just a month after Wizz Air announced that it was withdrawing its aircraft.
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 ?
Perhaps TUI add a bit to MAN and a bit to BHX, while Wizz add to EMA ?
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TUI could split capacity between East Midlands, Leeds, Manchester for next year.
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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.
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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.
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.
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Apart from the ex Vulcan hangar, they must have build lots of new facilities since I last visited in 2019 then?