Humberside Airport - General Thread

[Silvercity]

I just discovered that Humberside Airport only opened in 1974 ( closed after the war in 1945 ) . Quite surprised it hadn't been operating for a longer period.

 

[pug]

I just discovered that Humberside Airport only opened in 1974 ( closed after the war in 1945 ) . Quite surprised it hadn't been operating for a longer period.

Indeed, almost coincided with the formation of much maligned Humberside County Council. Prior to Kirmington being used for commercial aviation purposes, there was an airport in Brough which Autair ran a number of successful routes from. The building of Cappa Pass smelting works in 1969 meant that Brough lost its licence to provide CAT. The services moved to RAF Leconfield from which they continues up until I think 1974 when it was consolidated at Humberside and the rest is history. Believe Amsterdam will have been served continuously from Humberside for 50 years either next year or in 2025.

 

[Seasider]

The irony is that the chimney at Cappa Pass smelting works was demolished a few years ago. It could have been the airport for East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. (and a lot nearer for me to get to)

Autair operated a Jersey service from LBA for a short period in 1969? because of restrictions at RAF Leconfield.

 

[pug]

The irony is that the chimney at Cappa Pass smelting works was demolished a few years ago. It could have been the airport for East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire. (and a lot nearer for me to get to)

Autair operated a Jersey service from LBA for a short period in 1969? because of restrictions at RAF Leconfield.

Demolished in 1991 I think. It was allegedly the cause of numerous childhood cancers in the local area too sadly.

Basically the building of it on the approach meant that it caused an obstacle not suitable for CAT. But it wasn’t just that, the changing of hands from Blackburns to Hawker Siddeley around that time meant a change in focus and HS were apparently less than enamoured by CAT and GA using their airfield at what was a military aircraft factory. By that time the airfield was only really used by the company communications aircraft and a couple of other things as the main flight test airfield was at Holme on Spalding Moor until 1983.

I remember when the chimney came down there was lots of noise about the possibility of extending the runway at Brough, in fact it was seriously considered. By time there were a couple of J31s based at the airfield plus the PC9s in various numbers. In 1992 the jetstreams were considered uneconomical, the airfield expensive to maintain and the PC9 contract had gone as the RAF purchased the Tucano. So the airfield was downgraded and I think the only regular flying activity after that was a Police flying club C150 and an occasional flight by the then Blackburn B2. The airshow every two years saw the runway reopen and that handles various aircraft but then from 1999 even the runway was off limits! It did reopen briefly in 2008 for the hawks to fly out to Warton for flight testing and handover to customers. The pilot was positioned in on a small multi engine aircraft. There was a visit by the Martin Baker king air a couple of times too. Carol Vorderman may have actually been one of the last people to land there! It’s now the site of a discount supoermarket and a new link road follows the path of the old runway.

RAF Leconfield was used begrudgingly after Brough was closed to CAT. The MOD didn’t like the use of it for commercial air traffic due to its proximity to the Cowden range. Shame as that too was on a railway line, with a ready made long runway. But in the end it was handed over to the army and by that point Humberside airport had opened - the Humber bridge opening shortly after meaning the two sides of the river were properly connected, unfortunately it’s still a disjointed partnership.

Brough should have been the airport for the region, but it never happened and it now never will.

 

[Silvercity]

Indeed, almost coincided with the formation of much maligned Humberside County Council. Prior to Kirmington being used for commercial aviation purposes, there was an airport in Brough which Autair ran a number of successful routes from. The building of Cappa Pass smelting works in 1969 meant that Brough lost its licence to provide CAT. The services moved to RAF Leconfield from which they continues up until I think 1974 when it was consolidated at Humberside and the rest is history. Believe Amsterdam will have been served continuously from Humberside for 50 years either next year or in 2025.

I've only used HUY once, when I flew with Air UK from Tees side. Just a short hop, but saved a.long drive. I think I was the only one who got on at MME, and I think HUY was pretty deserted when I got off there. It was quite late in the evening I recall. I think the F27 went inwards to NWI.

 

[pug]

I've only used HUY once, when I flew with Air UK from Tees side. Just a short hop, but saved a.long drive. I think I was the only one who got on at MME, and I think HUY was pretty deserted when I got off there. It was quite late in the evening I recall. I think the F27 went inwards to NWI.

Must have been the old Sunday rotation. I’m terms of busyness, during the period early 90’s to mid 00’s HUY was often one of the fastest growing airports in the country. Unfortunately the opening of DSA and the consolidation in the IT market put a stop to that. Such a shame, confident that HUY would be outperforming BOH now had DSA not opened.

 

[Silvercity]

Must have been the old Sunday rotation. I’m terms of busyness, during the period early 90’s to mid 00’s HUY was often one of the fastest growing airports in the country. Unfortunately the opening of DSA and the consolidation in the IT market put a stop to that. Such a shame, confident that HUY would be outperforming BOH now had DSA not opened.

It was around that time, but dont remember the day of the week. It was certainly pre DSA. I do distinctly remember the pilot saying at MME he wanted to get underway because of fog rolling in..

 

[Silvercity]

MSN

 

[Mackadown spotter]

Hi guys.Hope you’re well.
I’ve come on here to talk about expansion from airports that need expanding.For example I’ve done Leeds and they like my positive thoughts.

This is my bet for
Loganair route to Inverness as a one weekly flight
Eastern airways to Europe to offer two destinationsrague and Rhodes

 

[Seasider]

Eastern A/W are not interested in offering holidays to Europe. It is not their mode of operation and they do not have the aircraft to operate such flights.

 

[pug]

Hi guys.Hope you’re well.
I’ve come on here to talk about expansion from airports that need expanding.For example I’ve done Leeds and they like my positive thoughts.

This is my bet for
Loganair route to Inverness as a one weekly flight
Eastern airways to Europe to offer two destinationsrague and Rhodes

Positive thoughts not appropriate on this sub

There is unlikely to be any new routes at Humberside, at least for the foreseeable future.

Anyone seen the class D Humberside is getting tomorrow by the way? It is only temporary to allow for an important movement, but it’s exactly what MAG proposed some 15 years or so ago!

 

[pug]

Latest FY results 2023 show that Humberside is back in profit - that’s with property revaluation. But actually it made an operating loss of £3000.00 on its core business.

Yes that is the right amount of zeros. It lost the equivalent of a third hand Vauxhall Corsa…! That’s based on 136,000 passengers. So crudely that means the airport lost £0.04 for every departing passenger.

Tell me again why the mayor next door wants to plunge up to £138m into a venture that previously lost up to £15.00 per departing passenger.

 

[Finger66]

Think it's down to delusions of grandeur for nothing more than a vanity project

 

[Aviador]

Latest FY results 2023 show that Humberside is back in profit - that’s with property revaluation. But actually it made an operating loss of £3000.00 on its core business.

Yes that is the right amount of zeros. It lost the equivalent of a third hand Vauxhall Corsa…! That’s based on 136,000 passengers. So crudely that means the airport lost £0.04 for every departing passenger.

Tell me again why the mayor next door wants to plunge up to £138m into a venture that previously lost up to £15.00 per departing passenger.

Wow that is one way of looking at it!