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It’ll be a triple taxiway at that part, it runs between Delta and Lima!

Without disagreeing with you, it’s worth pointing out that any airport losing £10m/year is subsidising its airlines. Wizz and TUI may not have been directly subsidised, but if they weren’t paying enough to run the facility then they were being subsidised indirectly by Peel absorbing the losses.

This is incorrect - Frequentis VCCS, despite being an excellent system, is not used at Manchester. I hesitate to say this (the last time I contributed to this topic of discussion I was banned from a sub-forum), but as quik123 pointed out above there are good equipment-related and other reasons...

No. If you moved the glide path aerial to the other side of the runway then you could get an extension out to the 32 threshold (the ‘piano keys’), but any further would require massive earth works. At the 14 end, unfortunately when the runway extension was built the councils cheaped out on the...

“…airspace to be available when we need it.” Well, exactly. When it’s needed - i.e. when it is required by the amount of airline traffic. Quite prepared to hold my hands up if I’m wrong, but I would be very surprised to see CAS in place on day 1 of ATC operations, for all the reasons...

Correct, no Radar equals no CAS. However I suspect they are using Approach as a shorthand for Approach Radar, since that’s how they refer to the previous operation earlier in the letter. Also, the location that radar services are provided from doesn’t really matter. However!! ATC will take a...

Stands 5 and 6 are fine w.r.t. the ILS. The only issue is with Stand 1, and only with a/c of 737 size as they taxi onto and off of the stand when Runway 14 is in use. If 2,3 and 4 were ever used again, and a way was found to put 737-sized a/c on them, they might have the same issue. The...

Of course, while the absence of CAS doesn’t preclude airlines agreeing to operate, it’s unlikely to be their preference if they have a choice. We haven’t seen any of the old charter operations flooding back to HUY after DSA closed, the world and its attitude to risk has moved on to a certain...

Points well made. If the airport isn’t planned to be a passenger operation, and instead something like Kemble, then obviously it won’t require CAS, or ATC. But that would necessarily limit any ambitions of establishing passenger operations in future. The SoS does have the matter called in, but...

Airspace is important, in that it is very expensive, time consuming and difficult to establish if it isn’t already there. Furthermore, the absence of CAS is a huge impediment to achieving the scale of operation that will be needed to make DSA profitable. Even if it were likely that a...

Is there any room to mount more cameras on the tower balcony? 😝

TUI’s supportive noises about DSA reopening have to be seen in the context that any airline with aircraft based in the region would be happy to see DSA reopen, even if they have zero intention of using it. This is because having a local alternative, one that is desperate for their business, is...

‘Sooner than later’ is a very relative concept. Even in the best case scenario, I can’t see DSA reopening within the year after being given the green light.

Reading that petition, the route that they are keen on (right turn-out North and then East of Otley) is designed to replace the current left turn-out LAMIX and DOPEK SIDs. There would still be a need to depart aircraft to the West via a NELSA replacement SID. Not bad news for the residents of...

The delays are good news - the outcome will be politically embarrassing, so they’re kicking it down the road as long as possible. The airport is obviously confident about the outcome, for it to agree to the delays.

It does happen, occasionally - sometimes both YAA helis plus Police 42 as well.

The airspace problem isn’t just the financial cost to reestablish it if it goes (although that is substantial). The problem is that new airspace is only granted when there are sufficient air transport movements to justify it. If the old DSA airspace does go, then it will take a substantial...

I don’t think the local politicians are clowns, I’m sure they have a very clear idea of the risks and of the likelihood of success, but they are hostage to local pride - a big, important city like Doncaster should have its own airport, after all. Their political opponents probably have an...

I’ll bet there was strong interest! These parties will be interested in running the airport for a flat fee, bearing none of the risk of failure. They’ll get their fee, the airlines will get their subsidies, Peel will get their rent. The taxpayer will get the losses.

The big unknown* is whether NEOs and MAXs count towards the quota or not. My view is they shouldn’t, otherwise what motivation do airlines and LBA have to move to quieter aircraft? (*Unknown from an outsiders point of view - I don’t work at LBA anymore)