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Doncaster-Sheffield Airport faces closure as 'no longer commercially viable'
Doncaster Sheffield Airport faces closure, it has been announced, just a month after Wizz Air said it was withdrawing its aircraft.
www.yorkshirepost.co.uk
Only used it once in 2006 when BMIbaby (remember them) operated flights. They flew to Valencia and I was sat next to the most nervous flyer ever, on landing she grabbed my hand and squeezed it so tight it left marks!The board of DSA is reviewing options for the site following lengthy deliberations which "reluctantly concluded that aviation activity on the site may no longer be commercially viable."
A statement from Peel L&P said despite significant investment and growth in passenger numbers DSA had "never achieved the critical mass required to become profitable."
It said the shortfall was exacerbated by the announcement in June of Wizz Air's withdrawal from the airport leaving only one base carrier, TUI....
I did however always think it was too far from any major population density to become very successful, but it has done well with heavy freight flights during Covid.
I knew a commercial agent who was tasked with letting space in the hangars once Finningley closed. Knowing it would be a struggle to get the major agents to visit to look at a load of hangars he opened up the runway and allowed the agents to drive whatever they arrived in as fast as they liked. Most successful viewing day he ever had!
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